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Die Wunder körperlicher Abfallprodukte
No 51
Tamar Novick untersucht den Gebrauch körperlicher Abfallprodukte in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie nutzlose Materialien wertvoll werden und wie dies neue Beziehungen zwischen entfernten Orten, Institutionen, Menschen und Tieren ermöglicht.
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The Wonders of Bodily Waste
No 51
Tamar Novick explores the use of bodily waste in scientific practice, considering when worthless matter becomes valuable and how this fosters new relationships between distant places, institutions, people, and animals.
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Clinical Observation and the Making of Cultural-Historical Psychology
In the 1920 to 1930s, Soviet psychologists developed an original research program, which they themselves characterized as "cultural-historical" psycho
Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular
This book project explored cinema’s early involvement with popular science, a field of texts and media that produced scientific knowledge for a lay au
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)
Being Brains
In the context of the collaborative project “The Cerebral Subject: Brain and Self in Contemporary Culture,” Fernando Vidal and Francisco Javier Guerre
European Conceptions of the “New Man,” 1880–1930
Stefanos Geroulanos' project focused on European intellectual and cultural history, a broad study of the trope of a “New Man”—the fantasy of a regener
Bringing Chymistry into Shape: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
In this dissertation project "Bringing Chymistry into Shape: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572–1637)," Joel
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
A Cultural History of Breathing
Familiar breathing—right under our noses—has at times followed and at times constituted the ever-changing boundary between what is considered “natural