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• 08 nov 2013

  Berne

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  PhD support in History of medicine

  Bern University

  L'Institut d'histoire de la médecine de l'Université de Berne met au concours un poste de doctorant(e) en histoire de la médecine. Une allocation de thèse d’une durée de 3 ans de CHF 42 000 à 48 000 par an est attribuée par le Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique (FNS) dans le cadre du projet de recherche : « Medical practice and international networks. Albert Schweitzer's Hospital in Lambarene, 1913-1965 ». Le but est de produire un "biographie analytique" de l'hôpital Albert Schweitzer de Lambarene en s'appuyant sur des sources d'archives disponibles en langues allemande et française. On visera à comprendre la pratique médicale à l'hôpital et le réseau international de Schweitzer.

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• 31 mar 2013

  Berne

  Call for papers - History

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st centuries

  Medical expertise in the 20th and 21st century / Medizinische Expertise im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert / L'expertise médicale aux XXe et XXIe siècles. Annual conference of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences, September 5 – 7, 2013, Bern, Switzerland. The conference would like to address the issue from various perspectives and ask e.g. the following questions: To which levels of medical knowledge and activity (skill, professional knowledge, experience, relationship with patients) did and does the claim of expertise refer to? Which strategies, rhetorics and kinds of self-fashioning were and are used in order to achieve, retain or reject the status of expertise? Which was and is the relationship between expertise, profession(nalism), institutionalization and specialization? In what respect is there a difference between a physician's claim of expertise and that of other health professionals?

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