Claudia Stein

Visiting Scholar

Dr., Associate Professor, University of Warwick

Funded by the University of Warwick

Residence: January 1–June 30, 2013

Profile

Claudia Stein teaches at the Department of History at the University of Warwick and works on the cultural, social, and intellectual history of science and medicine from the Renaissance to today. She has written on the concepts of the body and disease in the sixteenth century (Die Behandlung der Franzosenkrankheit in der Frühen Neuzeit am Beispiel Augsburgs (Steiner, 2003); Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany (Ashgate, 2009). In collaboration with Roger Cooter she has published on the world of visual imagery and epidemics (e.g. Aids) and the concept of biopower. Several of these articles as well as some ones will be (re)-published in Roger Cooter with Claudia Stein, Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine (Yale University Press, summer 2013). The themes of visual culture, medicine, and capitalism will be further developed in her projects, The Spectacle of Hygiene: Capitalism and Visual Culture in Britain and Germany, 1880s-1930s (with Roger Cooter) which she is about to finish. In her second book project, ‘The Birth of Biopower in Eighteenth-Century Germany’, Stein explores the usefulness of Foucault’s concept of biopower for the analysis of eighteenth-century forms of governance.

Claudia Stein received her Dr. phil. from the University of Stuttgart in History and an M. phil. in History from the Friedrich-Wilhelm- University at Bonn.