Der Band beleuchtet in drei Abschnitten die Wechselwirkungen der Wissenszirkulation zwischen Europa und Brasilien im 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Kontaktnetzwerke des brasilianischen Rechtsgelehrten Tobias Barreto, des Zoologen Ernst Haeckel und des Rechtswissenschaftlers Rudolf von Jhering.
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more informationenglisch‘Medicine as Science’ uncovers the forgotten identity of medicine as a modern academic discipline. Many works on the history and sociology of science and medicine have overshadowed this identity with a focus on medicine as a modern profession. Through a historical sociology and using a [...]
more informationenglischWhat role did experience play in economics between 1871 and 1919?
This book shows how economic actors in the formative phase of the discipline organised, researched, discussed and communicated experience, in short: how they practised experience.
Drawing on Ludwik Fleck's analysis of [...]
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more informationenglischHow can the human body be integrated into a technological loop? Is it enough to measure this body? Where does the measurable body end and where does the subjective realm of a sentient body begin? This book focuses less on the distinction between measurable (Körper) and sentient bodies [...]
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more informationenglischThe philosophical concept of emergence is now used in almost every academic and scientific field. The variety of phenomena that the term encompasses and the wealth of concepts and intellectual figures that prove to be or declare themselves to be emergent are reflected in the term’s countless [...]
more informationenglischIn modern present-day societies, established orders of knowledge are eroding, leaving new zones of ambiguity. Although these processes are commonly pictured as processes of politicization, economization, and medialization of science, these explanations seem not sufficient. Instead, this book [...]
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