Stahnisch, Frank - History

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Frank
Nom: 
Stahnisch
Département / Programme: 
History of Medicine & Health Care Program
Autre: 
Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of History
Affiliation universitaire: 
University of Calgary
Phone: 
403.210.6290
Email Address: 
fwstahni@ucalgary.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History
Objet: 
Medicine
Région géographique: 
Europe
Champ d'études: 
The problem of interdisciplinarity in the neuromorphological sciences between 1910 and 1945, with a special regard to émigrés German-speaking neurologists in North-America. The results shall give further hints as to how important interdisciplinary work is perceived in the neurosciences and their general research organisation. As such, the project is of multiple importance to the historiographical, epistemological, as well as the methodological aspects of the science studies. These investigations display themselves as a particular endeavour into a central yet, hitherto, neglected field within biomedical research and the neurosciences. Specific Area of Research: Historical epistemology of the biomedical sciences in the 19th and 20th century Interdisciplinary organisation of the morphological neurosciences in the early 20th century Historical and theoretical relations between the brain sciences and the philosophy of mind Forced-Migration of German-speaking Neuroscientists after 1933 History of Public Mental Health in North-America in the 20th century
Academics
PHD Program: 
History of Medicine
PHD University: 
Free University of Berlin (Germany)
PHD Date: 
2001
Major Publications: 
Ideas in Action: Der Funktionsbegriff und seine methodologische Rolle im Forschungsprogramm des Experimentalphysiologen François Magendie (1783-1855) [= Naturwissenschaft – Philosophie – Geschichte, Vol. 18. Ed.: P. Hucklenbroich]. Muenster – Hamburg – Berlin – London: LIT-Press 2003, 296 pp.
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
2005-2007 Member-at-Large of the German Society for the History of Science (GWG) 2006-2009 Member-at-Large of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) Since 2008 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal “Medicine Studies” (Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin) Since 2008 Member of the Board of Directors of the Alberta Medical Foundation (AMF, Edmonton, Alberta) Since 2009 President of the Calgary History of Medicine Society (CHOMS) Since 2010 President of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)
Courses Taught: 
University of Calgary (Winter Term 2010): MED ELECT: History of Medicine and Health Care (Survey Course for 1-yr Medical Students) HTST 639.2 Topics in History of Science: “History of Medicine and Science from the Wilhelminian Empire to National Socialist Germany, 1870-1945” (Graduate Course) HTST 493.39: History of Medicine and Health Care (for 3-yr History & Health Sciences Students) MDSC 508: Health Sciences Journal Club (for 4-yr Health Sciences Students; co-taught with Dr. Cairine Logan) HSOC 408: Field Preceptor in Research Practicum Project (for 3-yr Health Sciences Students) University of Calgary (Fall Term 2010/11): MED ELECT: History of Medicine and Health Care (Survey Course for 1-yr Medical Students) HTST 493.38: History of Medicine and Health Care (Survey Course for 3-yr History & Health Sciences Students) NEURO 421: History, Philosophy, Society and Ethics (for 2-yr Neuroscience Students; co-taught with other faculty from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute) HSOC 408: Field Preceptor in Research Practicum Project (for 3-yr Health Sciences Students)