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Enhancing the Human: Sensory Enhancement and the Materiality of the Senses, 1910–1970
This project concerned a history of perception through the eyes of soldiers, factory workers, and office clerks: the ways in which human perception wa
Publications, “The Neuromance of Cerebral History,” in: S. Choudhury and J. Slaby (eds.), Critical Neuroscience, Blackwell (2011).
Education of Mining Experts, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This research project focused on the development of a new type of scientifically educated functional elites. It connected questions from the areas of
The Authority, Methods and Functions of Popular Science in the System of Sciences: Wilhelm Bölsche and Sexology
The factual ways by which knowledge travels from the public sphere into a specialized science or an academic discipline have yet to be explored. In th
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., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Membranous Things: An Archeology of the Nerve Cell, 1920–60
This project concerned a material history of the excitable cell in the twentieth century. Its central aim was to show that this cell was not only cent
Publications, “The Neuromance of Cerebral History,” in: S. Choudhury and J. Slaby (eds.), Critical Neuroscience, Blackwell (2011).
History of Modern Surgery
This project aimed to understand how surgery has transformed from a last resort measure into a routinely used body technology, arguably the most impor
Publications, Thomas Schlich, “Surgery, Science and Modernity: Operating Rooms and Laboratories as Spaces of Control,” History of Science 45 (2007), pp. 231-256.
The Foreign Laboratory Visits of Francis Gano Benedict
Educational travels and laboratory visits were commonplace events in nineteenth and early twentieth-century physiology. Physiologists traveled to meet
A China-Centered Perspective on the Travels of Rice, Tea, and Cotton through Early Modern Eurasia
During the colonial period, Westerners deliberately planned the introduction of valuable Asian crops such as rice, tea, or cotton to territories under
The Making of Acoustics in Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Europe
The 16th to 19th century represents a period that corresponds to a series of fundamental findings in acoustics. The aim of this project is to show, ho
Publications, "The making of acoustics around 1800: Ernst F. F. Chladni," in: Performing Knowledge in the long eighteenth century, ed. Mary-Helen Dupree and Sean B. Franzel, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2015.