Susanne Bauer

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Residence: September 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011

Profile

Having moved to science studies from a background of environmental science and epidemiology, my research fields include the history of recent biomedicine, epidemiology, risk assessment practices and environmental health. In particular, I have been interested in research collections and archives, including databases and biobanks, in the practices of data organization, mining and processing and in scientific visualizations and imaging. My current research is on Soviet and post-Soviet biomedical studies of radiation exposures, 1970 to present. Before joining this project, I have worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen (2005-2009) and at the Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin (2007-2009). From 1997 up to my PhD in 2004 (Dr Public Health, University of Bielefeld), I was involved in radiation epidemiology projects in the former Soviet Union.

Selected publications

Bauer, Susanne; Wahlberg, Ayo (Editor/s). Contested Categories. Life Sciences in Society. Farnham/Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.

Bauer, Susanne. "Mining data, gathering variables, and recombining information: the flexible architecture of epidemiological studies. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39: 415-426 (2008)

Bauer, Susanne; Olsén, Jan Eric. "Observing the others, watching over oneself: themes of medical surveillance in post-panoptic society. " Surveillance & Society 6(2): 116-127 (2009)

Bauer, Susanne. "Curating and dis/playing the biopolitics of prevention - A risk assessment software as a museum object?. " NordNytt (Nordic Journal for Ethnography and Folkloristics) 105: 71-85 (Special issue: Museums in between Art, Culture and Science 2008)

Bauer, Susanne. "Politik mit Kategorien. Zur Produktion von Differenz in Epidemiologie und Biomedizin.." In: Gemachte Differenz. Kontinuitäten biologischer "Rasse" - Konzepte., eds.: AG gegen Rassismus. Münster: Unrast Verlag, 2009.

Talks and presentations

October 2011

Workshop Series: History and Sociology of Science, Medicine and Technology, Department of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania – "Genogeography" and the Micropolitics of Difference: On Post-Lysenko Human Genetics in the late Soviet Union

September 2011

Colloquium series, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington – "Genogeography" and the Micropolitics of Difference. On Soviet Human Genetics at the End of the Cold War

June 2011

Workshop "Human Heredity: biology, anthropology and public health, 1940s-1970s, EHESS, Paris – Gene entanglements: Post-Lysenko genetics, 'medico-biological science' and the emergence of 'genetic epidemiology 'in the USSR

June 2011

Workshop: "Technologies of Belonging: Biology, Race and Ethnicity in Europe", Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Micropolitics of difference. A post-Soviet human genetic diversity project?

January 2011

Kolloquium, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen – Strahlen-Effekte. Vom Kalten Krieg zur globalen Primärprävention

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