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The History of Medicine Department is part of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine within the University of Zurich (UZH). It is an interdisciplinary chair and the team participates in research and teaching in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Philosophy. Prof. Dr. phil. Flurin Condrau is the chairman of the History of Medicine Department.
The researchers of the History of Medicine Department are also members of the Center « History of Knowledge » (Center of Excellence of UZH and ETH Zürich) and participate in the AG Medical Humanities.
The Department of History of Medicine stems from the History of Medicine Institute, founded in 1951. From 1957 to 1971, the German-American medical historian, physician and ethnologist Erwin H. Ackerknecht (1906-1988) was the Chairman of the Institute. Ackerknecht made the Zurich Institute internationally known.
The research colloquium of the Chair of the History of Medicine is jointly organized with the Chair of History of the Anthropocene, taking place on Wednesday.
For the next session, we welcome Felix Rietmann, presenting a chapter from his book manuscript Watching Babies: A History of Infant Mental Health entitled ‘Between Care and Surveillance: Technological Vision at a Parisian Outpatient Clinic for Early Childhood’ on October 4th, 14:00-15:45, Room KO2-F-155, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4. To join via Zoom, please use the QR code below.
Please contact ashokavardhan.manchala@uzh.ch for access to the pre-circulated papers.
The biannual Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health took place in Oslo. Lisa Haushofer contributed with her talk “Much confusion:” Symptomatic treatment, adherence, and the measurement of fear, and hosted an applied medical history roundtable. Yvan Prkachin presented on “Drowning in their own secretions”: Copenhagen’s 1952 polio epidemic and the technological origins of modern intensive care. "Risks and medical innovation: The case of microneurosurgery in the late 1960s and 1970s" was the title of Manuel Merkofer's talk.
At the book award of the EAHMH23 conference in Oslo, Lisa Haushofer's new publication "Wonder Foods. The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" got an honorable mention. The conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health takes place biannually.
Im Artikel "Bestraft für Totgeburten" (Das Lamm) beschreibt Martina Sochin-D'Elia wie die Schweizer Gesetzgebung zur Bekämpfung von Abtreibung und Kindstötung im 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert zur Stigmatisierung von Kriminalisierung von Frauen mit Fehl- und Totgeburten führen konnte und macht einen historischen Vergleich.
At the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Lisa Haushofer co-hosted the interdisciplinary workshop "Ecologies of Skins" building on recent scientific insights into the skin microbiome as well as historical, anthropological, and art historical investigations.
Our first research colloquium of the semester, jointly organized with the Chair of History of the Anthropocene, will take place on Wednesday, March, 29th, 12:15-13:45, Room KOL- F-103, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4. To join via Zoom, please use the QR in the program.
We are delighted to welcome Yi-Tang Lin who will present a paper titled ‘Learning from the Soviets and Science for Production: Chinese food scientists in the early People’s Republic.’ To receive a copy of the paper or to join our mailing list, please email lisa.haushofer@uzh.ch.
In der gemeinsamen Veranstaltung des Lehrstuhls für Medizingeschichte und des Archivs für Agrargeschichte Bern (AfA) am 16.02.2022 soll die Zusammenarbeit des SNF-Forschungsprojekts "Nutztiere im Anthropozän. Der Stall als Labor für One Health" und des Archivs für Agrargeschichte vertieft werden. Die Präsentationen der drei Teilprojekte bearbeitet durch Beat Bächi, Sara Müller und Henrik Jochum werden dabei von Juri Auderset (AfA), Peter Moser (AfA) und Isabelle Schürch (Universität Bern) kommentiert.
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Lisa Haushofer's new book "Wonder Foods. The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" just appeared in late 2022 at the University of California Press. She traces the history of modern food between 1850 and 1950 by looking at evolving nutrition sciences and the commercialization of new products. Revealing a powerful logic of exploitation and economization that undergirded colonial and industrial food projects, she shows the backdrop of how we think about food today.
Leander Diener hat ein Buch zur Geschichte der internationalen Forschungsstation Jungfraujoch verfasst. Das Buch fokussiert auf die Spannungen zwischen Nationalismus und Internationalismus in der Forschungspolitik der Schweiz und erzählt gewissermassen die Vorgeschichte des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds SNF. Die Vernissage fand am 24. November 2022 im Alpinen Museum in Bern statt.
Im Rahmen des Formats "Geschichte heute" klärt Sarah Scheidmantel in der aktuellen November-Ausgabe darüber auf, was die Geschichte des Vibrators mit binären Geschlechterbildern zu tun hat.Link zum Artikel
