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    Institute's Colloquium 2023–24

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    Let’s Talk about Gender!

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  • Photograph of Tilli Tansey, Lesley Rees, Howard Morris, and John Hughes at the Witness Seminar “Endogenous Opiates” held by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group

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    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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    Science Social

    Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (But It’s All Interconnected)

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in article in Nature on China's view to increase its influence in global science

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Research, Administration, and Journalist Fellowship positions

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Tamar Novick awarded the ASEH George Perkins Marsh Prize for her book Milk and Honey

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Events

Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture

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Objects Revealed: Unveiling Astral Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection

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Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia

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Fantastic Creatures and Plants: Ottoman Nature in Travelogues and their Computational Explorations

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