Explorations in Baltic Medical History, 1850-2015

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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 nineteenth and twentieth 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, Axel 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. Frontcover Contents Foreword Preface Circulation of Knowledge in the Baltic Sea Region: An Introduction Part One: Transfers of Medical Knowledge across the Baltic Sea 1 Gym Machines and the Migration of Medical Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century 2 Gynecological Massage: Gender, Conflict, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Medicine during the Fin de Siècle 3 Worlds Unexplored: Medicine in Stettin, 1800–1945 4 Smallpox in Malmö, Sweden, 1932: Disputed Knowledge of Infection, Contagion, and Vaccination in the Baltic Sea Region 5 The Politicization of the Temperance Movement in Pre-independence Estonia Part Two: Bridging the Baltic: Comparative Studies 6 Network Transfer: Paul Ehrlich and German-Scandinavian Scientific Relationships around 1900 7 Dorpat University in the Late Nineteenth Century as a Transit Space for Psychiatric Knowledge: The Example of Emil Kraepelin and His Conceptualization of Melancholia 8 Sanatorium Narratives from the Baltic Sea Region and Early Signs of the Pathographical Genre: The Case of Harriet Löwenhjelm 9 Biobanking at the Baltic Sea: An Analysis of the Swedish, Estonian, and German Approaches 10 The Simultaneous Embedment and Disembedment of Biomedicine: Intercorporeality and Patient Interaction at Hemodialysis Units in Riga and Stockholm Notes on Contributors Index