Explorations in Baltic Medical History 1850-2015

<p>The Baltic Sea region in northern Europe with its history of multiple cultural and social transformations as well as mixture of national and regional scientific styles has lately attracted much attention from scholars of various disciplines. This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline and illness as an experience during the 19th and 20th centuries? The anthology consists of ten chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions contact zones and areas of conflict essays in this collection discuss technological social and economic aspects relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. The contributing authors are historians physicians geographers ethnologists and scholars of literature. CONTRIBUTORS: Katharina Beier Motzi Eklöf Frank Grüner Martin Gunnarson Nils Hansson Alex C. Hüntelmann Ken Kalling Michaela Malmberg Joanna Nieznanowska Anders Ottosson Maike Rotzoll Erki Tammiksaar Jonatan Wistrand NILS HANSSON is Associate Professor in the Department of the History Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. JONATAN WISTRAND teaches in the Department of Medical History Lund University Sweden.</p>