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Institute's Colloquium: Covid-19 in the Rearview Mirror?
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My dissertation investigates Qing China’s engagement with European naval technology and the transnational arms trade in the late nineteenth and early
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The Uses and Abuses of Things: Reconceptualizing Technology-in-use within the History of Technology
This project’s interconnected aim is conceptual and empirical: to develop artifact-focused conceptual tools to understand technological use and t
Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform Era China
In the second half of the twentieth century, childbirth practices in China were increasingly subject to biomedical technologies, due to the
New Interdisciplinary Lise Meitner Research Group to Focus on China in the Global System of Science
Pressemitteilung (PDF)Neue Forschungsgruppe legt den Fokus auf China im globalen Wissenschaftssystem
Pressemitteilung (PDF)Epidemics in Context: Cholera and Plague in North Africa (1798–1919)
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Plague, cholera, and fevers have historically disrupted the commercial and geopolitical fabrics of port cities. In her project, Postdoctoral Fellow Edna Bonhomme examines how Alexandria, Tripoli, and Tunis managed infectious diseases between 1798 and 1919. Her research shows how sickness has long formed part of a process of globalizing medical surveillance, biomedicine, and public health policies—and how these in turn have affected the severity and span of disease.
Edna Bonhomme
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