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Bettina Bock von Wülfingen

PD Dr. - Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

History of Medecine

02.08.2013-31.10.2013

Economies and the cell. Heredity and conception 1900 and 2000.

PD Dr. Bettina Bock von Wülfingen is associate professor at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she did teaching and research since 2007. At this Institute she also acquired her ‘Habilitation’-title in 2012 with her second book titled “Economies and the cell – conception and heredity around 1900 und 2000“. She did her Dissertation in Public Health on “Geneticisation of Conception” (published 2007) after studies in biology (diploma), philosophy, history and political sciences in Regensburg/Germany, Córdoba/Argentine and Bremen/Germany.
From 2004 to 2007 she was visiting research fellow at different international institutes: at the Department for the History of Public Health, University of California in San Francisco/USA; at the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York/Great Britain (as EU Marie Curie Fellow); at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Science and Technology Studies, Graz/Austria; at the BIOS, London School of Economics/Great Britain.
Her research focuses on the cultural history of knowledge in the life sciences.

During her stay in 2013 she will turn her five hundred pages habilitation-book “economies and the cell” into a book-script for publication.

Bettina Bock von Wülfingen is associate professor at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she did teaching and research since 2007 and did her ‘Habilitation’ (second book) in 2012 on the “Economies and the cell – conception and heredity around 1900 und 2000“. She did her Dissertation in Public Health on “Geneticisation of Conception” (published 2007) after studies in biology (diploma), philosophy, history and political sciences in Regensburg/Germany, Córdoba/Argentine and Bremen/Germany.
From 2004 to 2007 she was visiting research fellow at different international Institutes: at the Department for the History of Public Health, University of California in San Francisco/USA; at the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York/Great Britain (as EU Marie Curie Fellow); at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Science and Technology Studies, Graz/Austria; at the BIOS, London School of Economics/Great Britain.
Her research focuses on the cultural history of knowledge in the life sciences. During her stay in 2013 she will turn her five hundred pages habilitation-book “economies and the cell” into a book-script for publication.

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