BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Ja
 pan - Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna)
DTSTART:20171109T130000Z
DTEND:20171109T140000Z
UID:TALK85061@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:The foundation of the Institute for Anatomy and Physiology of 
 the Central Nervous System in Vienna in the year 1882 marks without a doub
 t the birth of neurology as a science based medical discipline. This paper
  attempts to answer the question why already after a short period of time 
 a significant number of Japanese scholars visited the renowned Viennese la
 boratory. I argue that the appropriation of cutting-edge scientific knowle
 dge by Japanese medical professionals not only altered the trajectories of
  adjacent medical disciplines like psychiatry\, but at the same time promi
 sed solutions to a range of problems of the young modern Japanese nation o
 n a national as well as international scale. Historians of science have ex
 tensively studied German influences on the formation of academia in Meiji-
 Japan (1868–1912)\, but have consistently overlooked an Austrian institu
 tion and the vital role it played in this process\, a role possibly concea
 led in a tacit dimension.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR