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Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

2011  
PhD Durham University, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD) / Philosophy Department, funded by the Wolfson Research Institute
Thesis: The Human-Animal Boundary: Adding a New Perspective to the Pre-Modern History of the Nervous System
Supervisor: Prof. Andreas-Holger Maehle

2005
M. A. History/ English Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Dissertation: Vivisection Investigated and Vindicated (1842): A Scientific Assessment of the Vivisection Controversy in Early Victorian Britain  
Supervisor: Prof. Sabine Schuelting

2004             
MA History, funded by the Socrates Scholarship Scheme and the Department of History at Essex University, UK 
Dissertation: Hidden Minorities: Immigrants in Mayhew's London
Supervisor: Dr Peter Gurney


Publications 

Journal articles currently under review:  

  • 'A Brain Unfit for Speculation: Thomas Willis' Neuro- Anatomical Assessment of the Human-
    Animal Boundary' -  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
  • 'Allegories of Pain in H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau' - The Wellsian
 
2012
Review: Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. BJHS 45: 2 (Special Issue, June 2012), pp. 290-291.
 
Review: Justin E.H. Smith, Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. Princeton and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. BJHS 45 (March 2012), pp. 131-132
 
2009       
Journal Article: 'Constituting the human via the animal in eighteenth-century experimental neurophysiology: Albrecht von Haller's sensibility trials', Medizinhistorisches Journal 44 (2009), pp. 274-295.  Constituting_the_human (last modified: 26 April 2011)PDF

 
 

2008      
Journal Article: 'Ambivalente Analogien: Die Auslotung der Mensch-Tier-Grenze im neurophysiologischen Experiment des 18. Jahrhunderts', Traverse -  Revue d'histoire 15:3 (2008), pp. 17-28.  

Review: Michael J. Murray, Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, Oxford University Press, 2008. Philosophical Writings 37 (Spring 2008), pp. 54-57.    

 

Miscellaneous         

British Society for the History of Science - Grant Report: 'Archival Research in Berne', BSHS Viewpoint 86 (June 2008).

     
CHMD Workshop Report: 'Representations of Early Modern Anatomy & the Human Body' (4th CHMD workshop, Durham University, 22/06/2007), published in Wellcome History Newsletter 36 (Winter 2007), The Gazette (Society for the Social History of Medicine Newsletter)44 (April 2008), and online at H-Net / H-Sci-Med-Tech, 31/07/2007 and H-Soz-u-Kult, 12/08/2007. 

 
Editiorial work and translation: 'Henry Mayhew, Stadtethnograph. Eine historische Rekonstruktion'. Student project at the Institute of European Ethnology, Prof. Rolf Lindner, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; solid & earth, 2003.    
http://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/forschung/publikationen/datenbank/berliner_blaetter/Lindner2005?searchterm=henry+mayhew

       
Conferences and Seminar Papers (Selection) 

03/2009    
'Pain and the Human-Animal Boundary: What did Descartes really say?'; invited talk at Eidos seminar, Philosophy Department, Durham University    

09/2008
'Pets and Scientific Subjects: Considering the animal body in different environments'; invited talk at The Health and Welfare of the Manufactured Animal Workshop at Manchester University, UK 

07/2008   
'Crossing Boundaries in the Life Sciences: Experiment and the Question of the Human-Animal Analogy'; 3- Society Conference (sixth joint meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian  Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science), Oxford.

06/2008    
'Constituting the human via the animal in eighteenth-century experimental neurophysiology: Albrecht von Haller's sensibility trials', CHMD workshop, Experimental Transactions: Science and the Human- Animal Boundary, Durham University

06/2007     
'Experimental Physiology and Beyond: Crossing the Species Boundary in Science' CHMD seminar, Durham University

 

Additonal and extra-curricular activities 

06/2008      
Organiser of the Wellcome Trust funded 5th CHMD workshop Experimental Transactions: Science and the Human- Animal Boundary, Durham University, 24.06.2008 [http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/news/5thworkshop/report/]

since 03/2008
Proof Reader for the Durham University Service for Students with Disabilities

02/2007-  02/2008  
Organiser of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Medicine (HPSSM) informal Postgraduate Seminar

2002
Internship at the Landesarchiv Berlin 

 

Teaching

2010 (Michaelmas Term)
Junior Lectureship at Durham University, Philosophy Department; including Undergraduate Module Leadership and Teaching: History and Theory of Medicine (Lectures and Tutorials)/ Biomedical Ethics (Seminars) and Seminar Teaching, Essay Supervision and Marking for the Master's Programme in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine 

2009
Seminars: 'The History of the Vivisection Debate' and 'Contemporary Debates on Animal Experimentation' ( Biomedical Ethics Module), Durham University, Philosophy Department
                        
Lecture: 'Medicine and the Laboratory' and History and Theory of Medicine, (History of Medicine) Durham University, Philosophy Department                          

2007/ 2008
Seminar: 'Pain - the Language of the Body?' (History of the Body Module) at Durham University, Philosophy Department    

2006/2007 and 2007/2008
Tutor for the History and Theory of Medicine Module, Durham University, Philosophy Dept.