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New Fellow in the Winter Term: Philipp Osten

6 October 2022

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. med Philipp Osten at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Philipp Osten is the director of the Hamburg Medical History Museum and heads the Department for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at the Eppendorf University Hospital. He is interested in the interrelationships between medicine, politics and the public sphere. Under this focus, he works about natural philosophy, history of paediatrics and psychiatry, medicine under National Socialism, colonial collections, epidemics and films. During his research stay at the DFG CAS »Imaginaria of Force« from October 2022 to February 2022, he will investigate the topic »Widerstandskräfte [Forces of resistance]. Concepts of immunity and defence«. 

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