Learning with Patient Campaigners About a German Drug Scandal*. [PDF]
Ber WissThe West German drug Duogynon was internationally marketed as a “hormone pregnancy test” (HPT) between the 1950s and 1980s. In the late 1960s it came under suspicion for inducing miscarriage, spina bifida, and a spectrum of birth defects similar to those caused by the sedative thalidomide.
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Bausteine zu einer Oral History der Wissenschaftsgeschichte Auf der Suche: von der Biologie und der Philosophie zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Interview mit Soraya de Chadarevian. [PDF]
Ber WissWie kann man einen historischen Blick auf das eigene Fach werfen? Diese Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten – will man einerseits nicht in einer Nabelschau und Hagiographie enden, andererseits aber auch keinen umfassenden Entwurf einer zukünftigen Historiographie vorlegen.
de Chadarevian S, Grote M, Te Heesen A.
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Introduction: Embracing Ambivalence and Change. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2022 Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 291-300, September 2022.
Keuck L, Nickelsen K.
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The Curious Concept That Almost Nobody Seemed to Care About at First: Virtual Particles in the Post-War Period. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract Short‐lived, unobservable, and not subject to the usual rules of conservation of energy and momentum, virtual particles—an integral part of the conceptual framework of quantum field theory (QFT)—exhibit a number of curious characteristics which, in recent decades, have in part fueled important discussions about their ontological status ...
Martinez JP.
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From Organismic Biology as History and Philosophy to the History and Philosophy of Biology-the Work of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in the German Context. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2022 Abstract In this paper, I ask about the broader context of the history and philosophy of biology in the German‐speaking world as the place in which Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger began his work. Three German philosophical traditions—neo‐Kantianism, phenomenology, and Lebensphilosophie—were interested in the developments and conceptual challenges of the life ...
Reiß C.
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Movement beyond data: epistemic and pictorial challenges in understanding moving life [PDF]
Frontiers in BioinformaticsNothing inside organisms is at rest; everything moves. Cells are transported through the vascular system, proteins move cargo away or toward the cell nucleus, and enzymes repair DNA, which is constantly modified by metabolic cell processes or external ...
Janina Wellmann, Janina Wellmann
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Materialities of the In/between: Drugs and Medical Knowledge between Europe and East Asia. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract This special issue presents six research papers that were developed within the Taiwanese‐German working group “Materialities of Medical Cultures in/between Europe and East Asia.” Our working group uses the concept of “in/between” as an umbrella term to study the cultural history of drugs and the practices of medicine and care.
Merdes D, Wahrig B.
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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
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Berliner Geowissenschaftlerinnen an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität von 1906 bis 1945, eine Fallstudie [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2003 In dieser Untersuchung werden beispielhaft die Lebenswege und Karrieren von Berliner Geowissenschaftlerinnen im Zeitraum von 1906 bis 1945 nachgezeichnet und analysiert. Ähnlich wie an anderen deutschen bzw. westlichen Universitäten, aber im Gegensatz zu
B. A. R. Mohr, A. Vogt
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