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Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century*. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Arnold K.
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Learning with Patient Campaigners About a German Drug Scandal*. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
The 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.
Olszynko-Gryn J, Suter A, Bolger E, Nemec B.   +3 more
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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 Wiss
Wie 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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The Curious Concept That Almost Nobody Seemed to Care About at First: Virtual Particles in the Post-War Period. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Abstract 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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Materialities of the In/between: Drugs and Medical Knowledge between Europe and East Asia. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Abstract 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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In memoriam Fritz Krafft (10. Juli 1935 – 9. November 2025) [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Am 9. November 2025 ist Fritz Krafft, der Gründer und langjährige Herausgeber der Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, im Alter von 90 Jahren verstorben. Von 1988 bis zu seiner Emeritierung 2000 leitete er das Marburger Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie und der Naturwissenschaften.
Ash M, Borck C, Wahrig B.
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Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts-)Biografik: Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Gronau M, Gronau M.
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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Abstract 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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Bausteine zu einer Oral History der Wissenschaftsgeschichte Interview mit Dieter Hoffmann

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 378-412, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Wie 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.
Mathias Grote, Anke te Heesen, Dieter Hoffmann   +2 more
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The Creed of Nicaea

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 215-234, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This article gives an account of the discussions about the creed that took place at the Council of Nicaea in 325. It considers major problems regarding its origin and history and outlines the circumstances of its composition, its peculiar structure, and its purpose on the basis of the latest research. Finally, it discusses the legacy of Nicaea
Wolfram Kinzig
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