Wir freuen uns Frau Dr. Tatjana Buklijas zu einem Abendvortrag begrüßen zu dürfen.

Ort: Lesesaal des Josephinum, (Währinger Straße 25, A-1090 Wien)

Zeit: 6.Oktober 2011, 18.00 c.t.

Kontakt: sammlungen@meduniwien.ac.at

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Human development in fin-de-siècle Vienna
The early twentieth-century Vienna school of experimental embryology, housed at the private institute nicknamed Vivarium, has in the last decade received much scholarly attention. Once criticized for its ‘Lamarckian’ focus on inheritance of somatically induced characteristics and accused of scientific fraud, Vivarium scientists and their projects have been reassessed in the light of new perspectives on development and heredity and new knowledge of politics and society in Vienna. Other scholars have pointed out that the interest in development and environmental influences that shape it was characteristic for a range of local scholarly endeavours, including psychoanalysis and ethology. Yet human embryology at Faculty of Medicine has received little attention although Vienna was the home to the first (and for a long time only) embryological institute in the German-speaking world. My talk, which is an outline of the project currently in preparation on ‘Human development in Vienna around 1900’, will briefly introduce major themes and persons and try to explain how the institutional and social setting shaped the disciplinary orientation. It should contribute not only to the history of human embryology, but also to the histories of other related disciplines (anatomy, obstetrics) and the understanding of Vivarium science as well as patient and women’s history.

Tatjana Buklijas is a research fellow at Liggins Institute, University of Auckland. She received her doctorate in history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge (2005), where she was a Wellcome Research Fellow until her move to New Zealand in 2008. Her areas of interest are science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy; history of anatomy; cultures of death; history of developmental and evolutionary science. Her most important publications include: ‘Maternal and transgenerational influences on human health’ in Eva Jablonka and Snait Gissis,Transmutations of Lamarckism: from subtle fluids to molecular biology, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011, pp. 237–249 (with PD Gluckman and MA Hanson); ‘Public anatomies in fin-de-siècle Vienna’, Medicine Studies 2 (2010), 71–92; Making Visible Embryos, online exhibition, October 2008 (with Nick Hopwood); ‘Cultures of death and politics of corpse supply: anatomy in Vienna, 1848-1914’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82 (2008), 570–607; Introduction to the special section on ‘Science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (2007), 679–86 (with E Lafferton)

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