Borck, Cornelius -

Personal Information
First Name: 
Cornelius
Nom: 
Borck
Autre: 
Social studies of medicine/art history/communication studies
Affiliation universitaire: 
McGill University
Phone: 
398-2893
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Objet: 
Medicine
Science
Région géographique: 
Europe
Germany
Champ d'études: 
Historical epistemology; neurosciences between media theory and neurophilosophy; cultures of biomedical visualization; the infra-ordinary in art & science;
Academics
PHD Program: 
Neurosciences
PHD University: 
Imperial College, University of London
PHD Date: 
1996
Major Publications: 
Borck C (Hg.) (1996) Anatomien medizinischen Wissens. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Hagner M, Borck C. (Hg.) (2001) Mindful practices. On the neurosciences in the twentieth century [Special Issue]. Science in Context 14(4). Borck C, Hess V, Schmidgen H (Hg.) (2005) Maß und Eigensinn. Studien im Anschluß an Georges Canguilhem, München: Fink Verlag. Borck C (2005) Hirnströme. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Borck C, Schäfer A (Hg.) (2006) Psychographien, Berlin und Zürich: diaphanes. Borck C (2004) Message in a bottle from ‘the crisis of reality:’ On Ludwik Fleck’s interventions for an open epistemology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35: 447-464. Borck C (2005) Writing brains: tracing the psyche with the graphical method. History of Psychology 8: 79-94. Borck C (2006) Between local cultures and national styles: Units of analysis in the history of electroencephalography. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, série Biologies 329: 450-459. Borck C (2007) Vom Spurenlesen und Fintenlegen. Canguilhems Votum für eine Empirie organischer Rationalität. Nach Feierabend: Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte 3: 213-225. Borck C (2007) Communicating the Modern Body: Fritz Kahn’s Popular Images of Human Physiology as an Industrialized World. Canadian Journal of Communication 32(4): 495-520. Borck C (2008) Recording the Brain at Work: The Visible, the Readable, and the Invisible in Electroencephalography. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17: 367-379. Borck C (2008) Blindness, Seeing, and Envisioning Prosthesis: The Optophone between Science, Technology, and Art. In: Dieter Daniels uund Barbara Ulrike Schmidt (Hg.): Artists as Inventors – Inventors as Artists, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, S. 108-129.
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
HSS, DGGMNT, Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Courses Taught: 
Cultures of Visualization; Body & Machines; History of Modern Medicine; History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine; Medical Sociology; Introduction to Medical Humanities; Media and the Senses; Media Theory