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Experimenting with Life’s Potential: The Bio-Politics of Nutrition
Robyn Smith's project worked with the claim that the social sciences can use the data of the life sciences to inform and nuance our understanding of "
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Encountering Hermes in the Unknown: Exploring Experimental Vitamin Research during World War I
Despite the practical knowledge throughout the nineteenth century that citrus fruit prevented and cured scurvy, and that rickets and beriberi were dis
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
The Two Genomics. Ideology, Insider’s History, and Material Practices: The Birth of a Scientific Belief
The field of research that came to be known as “genomics” emerged in the 1980s from various initiatives dedicated to the genetic or physical mapping o
Hume and the Ideology of the Scientific Revolution
Tamás Demeter's project was interpretive: a book-length attempt at understanding Hume’s metaphysics and epistemology in the context of the Scientific
Metaphysics for an Enlightened Age: Condillac and the Practice of 18th-Century Philosophy
The French Enlightenment represents a unique episode in the history of post-classical philosophy: a moment poised between the decline of the medieval
Mutations and Mutagens. Biological and Risky Things in the Analytics of Biopolitics
Mutagens are simultaneously both required and avoided substances. They are “substances of transformation,” but also “genetic poisons.” Their transform
Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Radiation. Policy and Biology of Governmentally Important Substances
Since September 2004 this study, with Heiko Stoff’s work on “biological active substances” formed the life science section of the research group “Hist
Publications, “Prekäre Stoffe. Radiumökonomie, Risikoepisteme und die Etablierung der Radioindikatortechnik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus,” in: N.T.M. - Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 17 (2009): pp. 5-33., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Emerging Complexity. The Dynamics of Discipline, Computational Tools, and Virtual Experiment from 1960–2000
The years 1960 to 2000 witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the "new sciences" of chaos and complexity. Lambert Williams’ project aimed to provide
Social Concepts and Methods in Epistemology around 1930: Edgar Zilsel’s Socio-Historical Approach to Epistemology and his Concept of Science as an “Infinite Process”
Counting populations and finding ways to explain social strata and their developments have been an object of scientific inquiry and have formed the ba
Three Undiscovered Epistemologists: Paul Valéry, Kurt Goldstein, Jacques Lacan
The well-known poet Paul Valéry (1871–1945), the neuroscientist Kurt Goldstein (1878–1965), and the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–81) are les
Publications, “Paul Valérys objet ambigu,” in: Norbert Haas, Rainer Nägele, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (eds.): Virtuosität, Liechtensteiner Exkurse, vol. VI, Eggingen: Edition Isele 2007.