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Case History, Historia, Classification. François Boissier de Sauvages at Work on Paper.

A Paper Archive of Everything Ever Written. Ulisse Aldrovandi's Pandechion Epistemonicon and Renaissance Natural History.

Physicians' Loci communes. Forms and Functions of Medical Commonplacing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.

Scientism. On the History of a Difficult Concept.

Reading Colophons from Mesopotamian Clay-Tablets Dealing with Mathematics.

The Indianization of Colonial Medicine : The Case of Psychiatry in Early-Twentieth-Century British India.

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Anders als die weitgehend in der Geschichtsschreibung belegte psychiatrische Anstalt für Europäer und Europäerinnen mit ihrem englischen Leiter Owen Berkeley-Hill ist die weitaus größere Institution für indische Patienten und Patientinnen im nordindischen Ranchi bisher nicht untersucht worden. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrags steht die Karriere des Leiters dieser Institution, Jal E. Dhunjibhoy, zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts als von der britischen Kolonialregierung eine Indianisierung d...

From a Method for Family Planning to a Differentiating Lifestyle Drug: Images of the Pill and its Consumer in gynaecological advertising since the 1960s in West Germany and France.

The Construction of the Medical Writer's Authority and Legitimacy in Late Imperial China through Authorial and Allographic Prefaces.

Nanotechnology: New Social Dynamics at the Interface between Science and the Public.

Habitus, Hierarchies, and Methods: Subtle Distinctions between Physics and Chemistry.

From Scattered Research on Diverse Materials to Materials Science.

Wings of "Black Gold". History of Fibre-Reinforced Materials.

The Concept of Materials in Historical Perspective.

African Silhouettes and Field Photography. M. Griaule's Contribution to the Maussian "Discovery" of Body Techniques.

Ein gemeyn leycht buechlein. On the Didactics of Adam Ries' Second Arithmetic Textbook in Comparison with Widmann's "Behende vnd hubsche Rechenung"

A Mining Councillor, Two Ministers, and Six Tutors. Attempts to Establish a Mining School in Berlin around 1770.

'Biomedicine' in Anthropological Literature. The Career of a Concept between Analysis and Polemics.

Hermann Grassmann - Two Differing CVs.

Georg Forster's Outline of a "Science of Man"

Nachdruck: : Die beiden Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Revolution des 17. Jahrhunderts und die Gegenwart.

Stress, Cortisone and Homeostasis. Adrenal Cortex Hormones and Physiological Equilibrium, 1936-1960.

This article investigates the emergence of the concept of stress in the 1930s and outlines its changing disciplinary and conceptual frames up until 1960. Originally stress was a physiological concept applied to the hormonal regulation of the body under stressful conditions. Correlated closely with chemical research into corticosteroids for more than a decade, the stress concept finally became a topic in cognitive psychology. One reason for this shift of the concept to another discipline was the fact that th...

Nachdruck: : Die Bedeutung der sowjetischen Neuropathologie und Psychiatrie für die Neugestaltung der Fachrichtung während des Aufbaus des Gesundheitsschutzes in der DDR.