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Historical Styles of Experimentation and Observation: Historia Experimentalis
In the early modern period, “experimental history” (historia experimentalis) was a collective style of experimentation in addition to experimental phi
Publications, “Experimental History and Herman Boerhaave’s Chemistry of Plants,” in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 34 (2003), pp. 533-567.
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
Mapping the Field of Vision. From Experimental Investigations of Reading to Pattern Recognition, 1860–1960
Reading is probably one of the oldest known cultural-technical achievements, and the practices of reading have been intertwined with theoretical consi
Publications, “Die Diskursanalysemaschine. Heimsuchung des Blinden Flecks,” in: Claudia Blümle & Anne von der Heiden (eds.), Blickzähmung und Augentäuschung. Zu Jacques Lacans Bildtheorie. Zürich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2005, pp. 127-143.
Purely Swiss Vitamin C: The Cultural History of a Sociotechnical Project (1933–1953)
Synthetic vitamin C—and its triumphal procession—are science and technology in action. The success of the Reichstein procedure to synthesize vitamin C
Publications, “’Rein schweizerisches’ Vitamin C aus Basel. Zur Kulturgeschichte einer soziotechnischen Innovation,” in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 105 (2005), pp. 79–113. , Funding Institutions, H. A. Vögelin-Bienz-Stiftung für das Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt
Patent Classification and Scientific Taxonomies: Law as a Space of History of Science?
What do scientific taxonomies have in common with patent classifications? Both are examples and practices of ordering and structuring information into
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
The Cultural History of the Concept of Catalysis
Around 1900 the work of catalysts put the chemical industry on new ground. The production of key industrial substances such as sulfuric acid, indigo,
Knowledge and Development. Technology and Science in the Postcolonial Culture of Development
Since World War II, a complex system of international technical cooperation and development aid has evolved that prominently structures knowledge abou
Funding Institutions, Swiss National Science Foundation
The Genetically Engineered Body: A Cinematic Context
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two main technologies with quite diverse tactics and therefore aesthetics sought preeminence in replacing m
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