Jan Surman Orden de los libros

The analysis of local and international relations of "Vienna Medicine" in the 19th and 20th century and its networks and structures from an important research desiderate. The volume examines these relations with the aim to re-contextualise the history of medical research and practice in Vienna. The contributions of the volume analyse mobility, exchange processes of knowledge, standards and guidelines, social and professional networking, politics, transformations of political and philosophical concepts 'between' centers of medicine, exchange of artistic and medical spheres, and commemoration practices - as transnational phenomena and in their influence on medical research and practice in Vienna.

This volume challenges the common belief that scientific knowledge is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy confronted the problem of simultaneously nationalizing and internationalizing their knowledge in a multi-national empire during the 'age of nationalism'. The case studies go beyond traditional emphasis on history, ethnology or other 'national' disciplines, ranging from chemistry and physics to natural history, geology, seismology, surgery, linguistics and eugenics, focusing inter alia on scientific terminology in various national languages, supra-national networks of observation or data gathering, language issues in science education, and research practices in cross-national comparison.