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A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
Over the past twenty years neuroscience huge strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain reacts to music, and representations of musi
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
This research focuses on practices and texts related to hand mnemonics in fate prediction methods in contemporary China and Taiwan (with a current foc
Ciphers, Sounds, and Ear Trumpets: Acoustics and Espionage in England, 1655–1685
This project addresses forms of communication related to espionage under Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. As part of the CRC subproject “Epistemic Diss
Epidemiology, Chronic Diseases, and the Risk Factor Approach since the 1920s: Shifts in our Concepts of Health and Disease
One of the main sources of contemporary issues around the definitions of health and disease is the importance of the “risk approach” to disease and of
Funding Institutions, Fondation des Treilles
A History of Scientific Methods and Expertise in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In nineteenth-century society, the sciences gained in importance. Technology and industry, nutrition, public health, and the law are only a few exampl
Publications, Shifting and Rearranging. Physical Methods and the Transformation of Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006
Exploring the As Yet Unknown in Historical Epistemology, Experimental Systems and Contemporary Nutrition
This manuscript project concerned the material and conceptual conditions for the emergence of vitamins as new scientific objects within experimental s
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Anticipation in Hereditary Disease in Europe 1900–50
The history of the concept of anticipation in hereditary disease, the notion that certain hereditary illnesses strike earlier and often more harshly i