Frank W. Stahnisch

Frank W. Stahnisch is a historian of medicine and neuroscience at the University of Calgary in Canada,[1] where he holds the endowed Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care.[2] He is jointly appointed in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts,[3] and the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine,[4] and is a member of the Calgary Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health. His research interests in the history and philosophy of the biomedical sciences cover: the development of modern physiology and experimental medicine, the history of neuroscience and the history of psychiatry, as well as the development of modern medical visualization practices.[5] Since 2015, he has succeeded Professor Malcolm Macmillan (University of Melbourne, Australia) as an Editor-in-Chief of the international "Journal of the History of the Neurosciences" (with Taylor & Francis - Routledge Group).[6]

Education and Training

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Stahnisch entered the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt in 1990, where he commenced his undergraduate studies in medicine, philosophy, psychology and sociology. Continuing his studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the Université de Rennes I in France, he received his Master of Science degree in Philosophy of Science from the University of Edinburgh and his Doctorate degree in History of Medicine from the Free University of Berlin. Following to teaching positions held at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuernberg and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, he became a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. Further Visiting Professorships included the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany, and the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. In 2008, Stahnisch was appointed to the faculty of the University of Calgary in the rank of an Associate Professor, where he chairs the inter-Faculty and inter-departmental History of Medicine and Health Care program and acts as co-coordinator (History) of the Calgary History and Philosophy of Science Program. In 2015, he also became a Research Fellow of the Calgary Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS).

Work in the History of Medicine and Neuroscience

His doctoral dissertation, which was supervised by Volker Hess at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, was a history of laboratory practices in early 19th century French experimental physiology, an analysis of "Ideas in action: The notion of function and its methodological role in the research program of the experimental physiologist François Magendie (1783-1855)". It became subsequently published with LIT Press in Muenster, Hamburg, London in 2003, being one of the first specialized works in German language on experimental practices in modern medical research laboratories.

Stahnisch’s historiographical work has won several awards and prizes, including a Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), the John J. Pisano Award of the National Institutes of Health (USA), and the H. Richard Tyler Award of the American Academy of Neurology (USA). In 2009, he received the inaugural Klaus Reichert Prize for Medical Philosophy through the Aspects of Medical Philosophy Series and the Literary Society of Karlsruhe (Germany). From 2010 to 2011, he was President of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) and co-organized the first joint meeting of ISHN and Cheiron (The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) at the University of Calgary and the Banff Centre for the Arts (June, 2011) in Alberta (Canada). In 2012, Stahnisch was awarded the inaugural Mary Louise Nickerson Fellowship in Neuro-History by the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University (Canada).

His research has been funded, among other international agencies, by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), The Gerda Henkel Foundation, Associated Medical Services (AMS), Social Sciences Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Books (selection)

Peer Reviewed Articles (selection)

References

  1. ↑ http://ucalgary.academia.edu/FrankStahnisch
  2. ↑ The History of Medicine and Health Care program at the University of Calgary
  3. ↑ The Department of History at the University of Calgary
  4. ↑ The Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary
  5. ↑ The History and Philosophy of Science Program at the University of Calgary
  6. ↑ http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=njhn20#.VnLo1ukdWfQ

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