Bettina Wahrig

Department of the history of science and pharmacy,

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Biography:

Bettina Wahrig is professor for the history of science and pharmacy at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Studied medicine and philosophy; MD 1983; PhD in history of medicine 1984; Habilitation in theory and history of medicine 1997. She has worked on the experimental history of 19th century physiology, metaphors of organism and state in 17th century, history of pharmaceutical and medical professions, gender and science, the history of precarious substances, especially of poisons. Together with Corinna Bath, she is co-director of the graduate college “Configurations of humans, machines and gender” (funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture, Lower Saxony).

Publications include:

• Wahrig, Bettina (2018) (ed.): Critique of Science as Critique of Society: Literary Figurations of Techno-scientific Fetishism. Special Issue Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41, Heft 2, 123-192.
• Klippel, Heike; Wahrig, Bettina, Zechner, Anke (2017) (eds.): Poison and Poisoning in Science, Fiction and Cinema – Precarious Identities, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
• Schwerin, Alexander von; Stoff, Heiko; Wahrig, Bettina (eds) (2013): Biologics, a history of agents made in the Twentieth Century. London: Pickering & Chatto (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 16)
• Wahrig, Bettina (2009): „Fabelhafte Dinge“: Arzneimittelnarrative zu Coca und Cocain im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 32 (2009), p. 345-364