2 Postdoc. Fellowships "History of Science / History of Medicine" (Charite, Berlin)
Charité Berlin, Berlin-Dahlem, 01.04.2014-31.03.2016
Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2014
Applications are invited for two postdoctoral fellowships
(TVöD E13) to be held for up to three years from 1 April 2014 or 1 October 2014
at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Charité Berlin, in the research
project "Ways of Writing: How Physicians Know, 1550-1950" funded by
the European Research Council. Successful applicants will work on the activity
of physicians in one of the two following areas:
Natural history (possible areas of focus include
practices of classification, botanical gardens and herbaria, comparative
anatomy, trade and collecting, notetaking and republic of letters, materia
medica, travel and colonial)
Accounting (possible areas of focus include practices of
bookkeeping and reporting, statistics and medical topography, sickness funds
and health insurance, population and welfare, public health and disease
surveillance, economies of households, hospitals, and communities)
The project "How Physicians Know" explores the
primary medium in which medical knowledge occurred over most of the last five
centuries, namely, writing and its organisation and reorganisation on
paper. Physicians'
many roles meant that they used paper techniques shared
across clinical, natural historical, experimental, pedagogical, forensic,
military, accounting, administrative and other activity. To learn how paper
technology works and how this has shaped knowledge over time, to show how human
beings know and deal with the physical world through the world of paper: the
project aims to contribute to this wider goal through its focus on medicine.
The research group has collaborative links with early modern and modern
historians and historians of science and technology at the Humboldt University
Berlin (HU), the Free University Berlin (FU), and the Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science.
Applicants should have a strong academic track record and
research potential in history or history of science and/or medicine. Teamwork ability, readiness for cooperative
research, and openness to inquiry across historical periods and fields are
essential. Project members communicate in English and German. Preference will be given to equally qualified
female applicants.
Further information on the research group:
Enquiries: Volker Hess volker.hess@charite.de or Andrew
Mendelsohn a.mendelsohn@qmul.ac.uk
To apply, please send full CV, sample of written work,
and research proposal (in English or German) by 31 January 2014 to:
Ms. Stefanie Voth, Sekretariat
electronically stefanie.voth@charite.de,
or by post Institute for the History of Medicine Charité University Medicine
Berlin Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
Applicants will be interviewed in the week of 3 March
2014.
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Volker Hess
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin
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