Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Vita

Seit April 2021: Predoctoral Fellow Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences), Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin

2016-2021: Stipendiat und Doktorand am Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, gefördert durch "The Branco Weiss Fellowship - Society in Science" der ETH Zürich

2015 - 2016, M.Phil., Cambridge University, History and Philosophy of Science (History of British Enlightenment cartography, theories of historical time, and methodological issues in HPS)

2012 - 2015, B.A., Cambridge University, History (on visual culture and science in early modern Europe)  

Arbeitsschwerpunkte

• History of post-1945 Anglo-American Psychiatry.
• History and philosophy of biomedical theories of schizophrenia.
• History of brain imaging techniques.

Forschungsprojekt

„Learning from Alzheimer’s disease. A history of biomedical models of mental illness“ (gefördert im Rahmen des „Society in Science - The Branco Weiss Fellowship“)

Publikationen

• Keuck, Lara und Freeborn, Alfred (2020). “The Limits of Biomarkers. Contemporary re-phrasings of Canguilhem” In: P.-O. Méthot (ed). The Normal and the Pathological. Writings on Georges Canguilhem. Paris: Hermann Philosophie (collection med phi), 346-367.
• Freeborn, Alfred (2018). “The Cultural Ambivalence of Science Studies (Karine Chemla and Evelyn Fox Keller eds., Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge. Durham, Duke University Press, 2017)” The Journal for General Philosophy of Science.

Vorträge

• "What was 'Biological' about the 'Biological Revolution' in Psychiatry?", 2018 Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, University of Exeter 7 - 8 Jun 2018.
• "Measuring the 'Broken Brain': Neuroimaging and the 'Biological Revolution' in American and British Psychiatry, Annual Conference of the American Association of the History of Medicine, UCLA 10 May 2018.
• "What was 'Biological' about the 'Biological Revolution' in Psychiatry?" Institutskolloquium Insitut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Universität Lübeck 16 Apr 2018.
• "Neuroimaging and the Late-Modern 'Biological Revolution' in Psychiatry, 1976-2005", Kolloquium zur Gechichte des Wissens, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12 Jul 2017.
• "Niklas Luhmann and the Observation of Modern Science", The Past, Present and Future of Integrated HPS: An International Postgraduate Forum, University of Leeds 13 - 14 Jan 2017.