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The Experience of Uncertainty: Generation in European Medicine, 1500–1650
How does human life begin? How do we know when it has started? Such questions are still debated today, but they were also hotly contested in the early
A Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
Internationalization or Centralized Control? Managing International Research Cooperation with Chinese Characteristics
The world’s largest radio telescope, a lunar rover on the dark side of the moon, an international ethical scandal caused by gene-editing of human embr
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Yael Barash
Yael Barash is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Yosef Schwartz at the Cohn Institu...
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Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine
The appearance of unusual or non-normative physical, intellectual, and developmental traits in newborn infants perplexed premodern medical and literar
Child Development and Its Histories
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Investigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Mirjam Voerkelius
Mirjam Voerkelius will use her fellowship at the MPIWG to complete her PhD in Late Modern Europe...
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rbb releases a podcast with Birgit Kolboske on women and gender in the Max Planck Society
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