Foto: Katarzyna Mazur
Member since 2020
subject: Medizingeschichte/Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Contact
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin
Thielallee 71
14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 450 529 040
birgit.nemec@charite.de
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
Since 05/2021
Professor of the History of Medicine at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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.
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.
2015-2021
Research assistant at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg
2016
PhD at the University of Vienna (Dr. phil.) in history with focus on the history of science
2015
AFK and Stimulation Fund (NL) Research Fellowship for Arts Based Research
2010 - 2014
FWF Fellowship within the Graduate Program 'The sciences in historical, cultural and philosophical contexts' at the University Vienna
2013
Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin
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
2012
Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
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
2003 - 2008
Historical studies with a focus on cultural studies and contemporary history at the university of Vienna and Rome
2001 - 2003
College for Cultural Management and Business Administration, Vienna
Nemec, B und Olszynko-Gryn, J. (2021). In: Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online.
Nemec, B/ u.a. (Eds.) (2021), V & R unipress Wien.
Nemec, B (2020), Wallstein.
Nemec, B (2019/forthcoming). In: McFarland, R./Zechner, I./Vasold, G. (Hg.) Red Vienna Sourcebook, Camden House.
Nemec, B and Zimmer, F. (2019), NTM 27 (1), S 39-78.
Nemec, B and Schwarz, W.M. (2019). Praxis. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Wien Museum/MUSA, 58–61.
Sonja Bäumel, Hanne L.P. Tytgat, Birgit Nemec, Ruth Schmidt, Loo Wee Chia, Hauke Smidt (2018)
Nemec, B (2018)
Nemec, B./Moser, G. (2017), Heidelberg: Springer.
Angetter, D / Nemec, B. / Weindling, P./ Druml, C. (Hgs.) (2018), V & R unipress Wien
Nemec, B. (2015), S 44–71.