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Propagation of the Soul—Inheritance of Sin
Stefan Borchers' project explored the influence of religious confession in shaping the theories of generation and inheritance in late seventeenth- and
The Americas' Mighty Skeletons, 1800–1850
In late colonial and post-independence times—in a context of commercial rivalry among French, American, and British interests—maps, manuscripts, and d
Publications, El sendero del tiempo y de las causas accidentales. Los espacios de la Prehistoria en la Argentina, 1850-1910; Prohistoria, Rosario, 2009.
The Popular Science Book: A New Genre between Literature and Science in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
In Europe, popular science books emerged during the second half of the nineteenth century. They were written not only by scientists who wanted to make
Publications, “Populärwissenschaft als fachwissenschaftliche Autorität: Wilhelm Bölsche, Das Liebesleben in der Natur und die Anfänge der Sexualwissenschaft,” in: Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin 3 (2009), pp. 13-38.
The Perfect Machine: The Body and Modernist Surgery in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna
Thomas Schlich's project dealt with surgical machines and Viennese Modernism, war and dance revues, technologies of objectivity and the standardizatio
Publications, Thomas Schlich, “The Perfect Machine: Lorenz Böhler’s Rationalized Fracture Treatment in WWI,” Isis 100 (2009), 758-791.
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
Solomon’s Temple Models as Scientific Objects
While material models have long served the communities that deploy them as constructive devices for mediating relationships between the physical world
Publications, “The Model that Never Moved: the Case of a Virtual Memory Theater and its Christian Philosophical Argument,” in: Science in Context (2010).
Styles of Science Communication. German-American Transfer Histories, 1945–84
Ina Heumann's research examined science communication as a cultural, social, and epistemic practice that is shaped by its historical contexts as well
Publications, “Stile der Wissenskommunikation. Deutsch-amerikanische Transfergeschichten, 1945/1964,” in: IFKnow 02 (2009), pp. 6f.
Transitions From Animal to Human Experiment in Medical Research, ca. 1880-1960
In the development of medical techniques and therapeutic agents, the transfer of knowledge produced in animal “models” to experimental settings involv
Vital Knowledge of Life: A Systematic Comparison of Helmuth Plessner and Georges Canguilhem
This dissertation project systematically compared the historical epistemology of Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) with the philosophical anthropology of H
Publications, Ebke, Thomas. Doppelaspekt des Lebens und Zwiefachheit der Physis: Ein systematischer Vergleich zwischen Helmuth Plessner und Martin Heidegger. München: Meidenbauer, 2008.
Pursuit of Interdisciplinarity in the German Neuromorphological Sciences, 1910–1945
This book project aimed at reconstructing the important merging tendencies that since the 1910s have brought formerly separated disciplines (anatomy,
Publications, “German-Speaking Émigré-Neuroscientists in Canada after 1933: Critical Reflections on Emigration- Induced Scientific Change.” In: Christian Fleck (ed.): Forced Migration of Scholars and Scientists in the 20th Century. A special issue of Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichtswissenschaften (Vienna) 21 (2010), ca. 30 pp. (in print).[This article will also appear as a Pre-Print in the Preprint Series of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Germany)]., Related Digital Sources, http://edoc.mpg.de/display.epl?mode=people&fname=Frank W.&name=Stahnisch, Funding Institutions, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), University of Calgary