Birgit Nemec
Member since 2020
subject: Medizingeschichte/Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Contact
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin
Im Neuenheimer Feld 327
69120 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 6221 - 54 48 16
birgit.nemec@charite.de
Research Areas
History of pregnancy and reproductive medicine in the 20th century
History of human genetics, genetic counselling and genetic diagnostics
Visual and material cultures of the sciences in the 20th century
History of anatomical pictures
Urban history and politics of memory
Curriculum Vitae
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Since 2020
Together with Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Glasgow) head (PI) of DFG/AHRC joint project Risky Hormones, Pregnant Patients and the Contested Science of Birth Defects: The rise and fall of hormone pregnancy tests, 1950-1980s.
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Since 2019
Scholarship holder of the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Programme and head (PI) of the BMBF/DLR research group "Risk Children". A scientific and social history of pregnancy and reproduction.
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Since 2015
Research assistant at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg
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2016
PhD at the University of Vienna (Dr. phil.) in history with focus on the history of science
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2015
AFK and Stimulation Fund (NL) Research Fellowship for Arts Based Research
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2010 - 2014
FWF Fellowship within the Graduate Program 'The sciences in historical, cultural and philosophical contexts' at the University Vienna
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2013
Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin
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2013
Member of a Historian's Commission for the Naming of Traffic Areas in Public Space, Institute for Contemporary History and Association for the Scientific Analysis of Contemporary History, Vienna
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2012
Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
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2011 - 2014
Research fellowship at the Medical University of Vienna within the framework of two interdisciplinary projects to explore the interfaces between the arts and medicine
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2003 - 2008
Historical studies with a focus on cultural studies and contemporary history at the university of Vienna and Rome
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2001 - 2003
College for Cultural Management and Business Administration, Vienna
Activities
Publications
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Health Care and Social Hygiene (Buchkapitel).
Nemec, B (2019/forthcoming). In: McFarland, R./Zechner, I./Vasold, G. (Hg.) Red Vienna Sourcebook, Camden House.
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Wie aus Umweltforschung die genetische Pränataldiagnostik entstand.
Nemec, B and Zimmer, F. (2019), NTM 27 (1), S 39-78.
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Afrika Singt! Rotes Wien Global. In: Schwarz/Spitaler/Wikidal: Das Rote Wien. Ideen. Debatten.
Nemec, B and Schwarz, W.M. (2019). Praxis. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Wien Museum/MUSA, 58–61.
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Fifty Percent Human – How art brings us in touch with our microbial co-habitants. In: Microbial Biotechnology 11 (4), S 571–574.
Sonja Bäumel, Hanne L.P. Tytgat, Birgit Nemec, Ruth Schmidt, Loo Wee Chia, Hauke Smidt (2018)
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Knowledge Landscapes of Anatomy in Periods of Political Change, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift. Sonderheft “Anschluss" March 1938: Aftermath on Medicine and Society.
Nemec, B (2018)
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Counselling, Risk and Prevention in Human Genetic Early Diagnosis in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Heike Petermann, Peter Harper, Judith Friedman, Susanne Doetz (Hg.), History of Human Genetics.
Nemec, B./Moser, G. (2017), Heidelberg: Springer.
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Strukturen und Netzwerke – Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848–1955. 650 Jahre Universität Wien – Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert, Bd. 5.
Angetter, D / Nemec, B. / Weindling, P./ Druml, C. (Hgs.) (2018), V & R unipress Wien
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Anatomical modernity in Red Vienna. Julius Tandler’s textbook for systematic anatomy and the politics of visual milieus. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 1/2015.
Nemec, B. (2015), S 44–71.
