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The History of Medicine Department is part of the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine within the University of Zurich (UZH). It is an interdisciplinary chair and the team participates in research and teaching in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Philosophy. Prof. Dr. phil. Flurin Condrau is the chairman of the History of Medicine Department.
The researchers of the History of Medicine Department are also members of the Center « History of Knowledge » (Center of Excellence of UZH and ETH Zürich) and participate in the AG Medical Humanities.
The Department of History of Medicine stems from the History of Medicine Institute, founded in 1951. From 1957 to 1971, the German-American medical historian, physician and ethnologist Erwin H. Ackerknecht (1906-1988) was the Chairman of the Institute. Ackerknecht made the Zurich Institute internationally known.
The workshop Historicizing Farm Animals: Cowsheds, Battery Cages, and Pigsties as Laboratories for One Health is organized by the Chair for the History of Medicine at the University of Zürich, and the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Farm Animals in the Anthropocene”. It will take place from 11th June to 13th June 2025 in Zürich, Switzerland and features a keynote by Hannah Landecker (University of California, Los Angeles).
Auf der britischen Online-Plattform "The Polyphony. Conversations across the medical humanities" gibt Sarah Scheidmantel einen Einblick über die Verbindung der Überwachung von Sexualität, Massage-Instituten und Bordellen. https://thepolyphony.org/2024/04/08/medical-massage/
Hernik Jochums Artikel "Die Meldepflicht als Grundlage der epidemiologischen Statistik: Die Auswirkungen der Meldepraxis und der Verwendung von paper technologies auf den Informationsgehalt von Morbiditätsstatistiken 1886-1921" ist bei NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin erschienen. Darin untersucht er die Meldung epidemiologischer Zahlen zu Pocken- und Typuserkrankungen genauer und beschreibt sie als Herausforderung für die interkantonale Zusammenarbeit oder lokalärztliche Diagnostik – und letztlich auch für Historiker:innen.
Sarah Scheidmantel und Beatrix Göcking haben das Instituts-Factsheet für die Sex and Gender in Medicine-Kommission der Medizinischen Fakultät geschrieben.
Darin geht es um Geschlechtsperspektiven aus dem jeweiligen Forschungsbereich, das in Studium und Lehre eingesetzt werden kann.
Im Kurzartikel im Blick widerlegt Sarah Scheidmantel unter anderem den Mythos Vibrator zur Hysterie-Behandlung und beschreibt dessen Ursprünge.
Sarah Scheidmantel spricht an der Museumsnacht Bern (15. März) zu "Good Vibrations? Eine kurze Geschichte medizinischer Massagegeräte" in der Medizinsammlung des Inselspitals. Zudem hält sie am 26. März ein Referat anlässlich des Equal Pay Day in Glarus.
Our first research colloquium of the semester, jointly organized with the Chair of History of the Anthropocene, will take place on Wednesday, February 28th, 14:00-15:45, Room SOF-E-17, Schönberggasse 1. To join via Zoom, please use the QR code here.
We are delighted to welcome Oluwaseun Otosede Williams who will present a paper titled «We Have Progressed No Further than the Local Cow Doctor”: Bovine Pleuropneumonia and the Limits of Colonial Veterinary Science in Nigeria.
Please contact Henrik Jochum for access to the pre-circulated papers. We would also like to draw your attention to the rest of our program for the semester.
The new issue "Geschichte in Gummistiefeln" was just published by the journal "Body Politics. Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte" and edited by Beat Bächi. It includes his editorial, "Geschichte in Gummistiefeln: Nutztierkörper", and article "Nutztiere im Anthropozän. Zur Produktion von Gesundheit und Krankheit im Schweinestall".
The bi-annual conference of the European Rural History Organization took place at the Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. Sara Müller held a talk with the title «Between Feed and Remedy. Antibiotics in Swiss Cattle Farming, c. 1950-1980». «Medico-Techno-Fixes in the Swiss Industrialized Poultry Stable Between 1930 and 1970» was the title of Henrik Jochum's presentation. They joined a panel on Animal Health in the Industrialized Stable with Floor Haalboom and Veronika Settele.
The research colloquium of the Chair of the History of Medicine is jointly organized with the Chair of History of the Anthropocene, taking place on Wednesday.
For the next session, we welcome Felix Rietmann, presenting a chapter from his book manuscript Watching Babies: A History of Infant Mental Health entitled ‘Between Care and Surveillance: Technological Vision at a Parisian Outpatient Clinic for Early Childhood’ on October 4th, 14:00-15:45, Room KO2-F-155, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4. To join via Zoom, please use the QR code below.
Please contact ashokavardhan.manchala@uzh.ch for access to the pre-circulated papers.