Mildenberger Florian
Wurzbg Medizinhist Mitt. 2008;27:203-24.
Magnus Schmid seems to have been an "ordinary historian of medicine" from 1950 to 1977 in Munich and Erlangen. Following his death he became forgotten by his colleagues. But despite the fact, that he did not publish great books, he modernized the subject and was open to new interpretations of history of medicine and to intercultural views on history. For more than 20 years he seemed to be a quite liberal researcher, but following the changes in society after the 1968/69 revolt, he became a fighter for a new conservatism. Schmid was unwilling to accept that people decided freely about their body and health, without consulting doctors like him while he believed in an unchangeable foundation of ethics in medicine (e. g. abortion). So Schmid, in the last years of his life to the fact, made his valuable scientific works disappear behind his dubious campaigning against the modernized western German society.
1950年至1977年期间，马格努斯·施密德在慕尼黑和埃尔朗根似乎只是一名“普通的医学史学家”。他去世后，便被同事们遗忘了。尽管他没有出版过伟大的著作，但他使这一学科实现了现代化，并且对医学史的新诠释以及医学史的跨文化观点持开放态度。在20多年的时间里，他似乎是一位相当开明的研究者，但在1968/69年反抗运动后社会发生变化的情况下，他成为了新保守主义的斗士。施密德不愿接受人们在不咨询像他这样的医生的情况下就自由地对自己的身体和健康做出决定，而他坚信医学伦理有不可改变的基础（例如堕胎）。因此，在他生命的最后几年，施密德事实上让他有价值的科学著作消失在了他针对西德现代化社会的可疑活动背后。
