Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015. 9781580469401. Innbundet - 2019

Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that region The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, with its history of multiple cultural and social transformations, as well as mixture of national and regional scientific styles, has lately attracted much attention from scholars of various disciplines. This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The anthology consists of ten chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. The contributing authors are historians, physicians, geographers, ethnologists, and scholars of literature. CONTRIBUTORS: Katharina Beier, Motzi Eklöf, Frank Grüner, Martin Gunnarson, Nils Hansson, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Ken Kalling, Michaela Malmberg, Joanna Nieznanowska, Anders Ottosson, Maike Rotzoll, Erki Tammiksaar, Jonatan Wistrand NILS HANSSON is Associate Professor in the Department of the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. JONATAN WISTRAND teaches in the Department of Medical History, Lund University, Sweden.

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Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that region

Foreword - Peter M. Nilsson Preface - Heiner Fangerau Circulation of Knowledge in the Baltic Sea Region: An Introduction - Nils Hansson Introduction - Jonatan Wistrand PART 1. TRANSFERS OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE BALTIC SEA Gym Machines and the Migration of Medical Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century - Anders Ottosson Gynecological Massage: Gender, Conflict and Transfer of Knowledge in Medicine During the Fin de Siècle - Michaela Malmberg Worlds Unexplored. Medicine in Stettin, 1800-1945: Current State of Knowledge, Research Perspectives - Joanna Nieznanowska Smallpox in Malmö, Sweden 1932: Disputed Knowledge of Infection, Contagion and Vaccination in the Baltic Sea Region - Motzi Eklöf The Politicization of the Anti-alcohol Movement in Pre-independence Estonia - Ken Kalling and Erki Tammiksaar PART 2. BRIDGING THE BALTIC: COMPARATIVE STUDIES Network Transfer-Paul Ehrlich and German-Scandinavian Scientific Relationships around 1900 - Axel C. Hüntelmann Dorpat University in Late Nineteenth Century as a Transit Space for Psychiatric Knowledge. The Example of Emil Kraepelin and his Conceptualization of Melancholia - Maike Rotzoll Dorpat University in Late Nineteenth Century as a Transit Space for Psychiatric Knowledge. The Example of Emil Kraepelin and his Conceptualization of Melancholia - Frank Grüner Sanatorium Narratives from the Baltic Sea Region and Early Signs of the Pathographical Genre-The Case of Harriet Löwenhjelm - Jonatan Wistrand Biobanking at the Baltic Sea: An Analysis of the Swedish, Estonian and German Approaches - Katharina Beier The Simultaneous Embedment and Disembedment of Biomedicine: Intercorporeality and Patient Interaction at Hemodialysis Units in Riga and Stockholm - Martin Gunnarson Notes on Contributors

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Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015. brings together a wide range of diverse topics: one article exemplifies the migration of medical knowledge by describing the development of gymnastics, whereas another sheds light on the role of intercultural exchange between Eastern and Western concepts of melancholy. This volume unifies these findings and sheds light on new information that will be invaluable to readers from the field of medical history.

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