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Strahlenforschung : Bio- und Risikopolitik der DFG, 1920-1970
Die Strahlenforschung hat das 20. Jahrhundert geprägt. Strahlen kamen in Wissenschaft, Medizin, Industrie und Rüstung zur Anwendung. Was waren die Entstehungsbedingungen und wer die Akteure dieser Schlüsseltechnologie?
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On Hysteria : the Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem - and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women.
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Das Anthropozän : zum Stand der Dinge
Mit dem »Zeitalter des Menschen« ist erdgeschichtlich ein irreversibler Prozess in Gang gesetzt worden. Wenn das, was wir bisher als Natur verstanden haben, von Menschen gemacht ist, funktionieren Dualismen wie Natur/Kultur oder Subjekt/Objekt nicht mehr in ihrer althergebrachten Funktion.
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Die Farben des Tastens
»Gesenkt den Kopf / immer auf der Suche / nach römischen Münzen / so hab ichs gelernt«, lautet eine Strophe Hans-Jörg Rheinbergers.
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Historical Epistemology of Space : from Primate Cognition to Spacetime Physics
The book introduces an epistemologically informed history of knowledge across different disciplines, discusses the societal and material conditions under which theories and spatial thinking develop, presents theoretical considerations & concrete results from both historical studies and empirical sciences.
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Diversität : Geschichte und Aktualität eines Konzepts
Das Nachdenken über Diversität reicht von den Naturwissenschaften über die Geschichtswissenschaften, die Gesellschaftswissenschaften, die Philosophie bis zu den Künsten. Diversität ist zudem politisch und emotional beladen. In diesem Buch wird nicht nur über Einzelaspekte von Diversität berichtet, es wird auch eine Synthese versucht.
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Vital Minimum : Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France
What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs.
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Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches to an Old Topic
In this research project, Mona Friedrich studied the rise of organized record-keeping from roughly 1450 to 1789. It was only during this period that a
Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry : the Unpublished Manuscripts
This book offers a general introduction to the geometrical studies of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) and his mathematical epistemology. In particular, it focuses on his theory of parallel lines and his attempts to prove the famous Parallel Postulate.
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Authentically African : Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display of art and the construction of cultural authenticity and political legitimacy from the late colonial until the postcolonial era.
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