Faculty of Philosophy, Historisches Seminar

Testing Psychiatrists to Diagnose Schizophrenia: Statistical Validation and Professional Self-Regulation in postwar Psychiatry

Date
16. May 2023, 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Location
LG4/D07
Series
Research Colloquium History of Science
Organizer
Chair for the History of Science / Research Group „Praxeologies of Truth“
Speaker(s)
Dr. Alfred Freeborn
Event type
Lecture
Event Language(s)
English
German

Please join our colloquium for a lecture by Alfred Freeborn (MPIWG Berlin): "Testing Psychiatrists to Diagnose Schizophrenia: Statistical Validation and Professional Self-Regulation in postwar Psychiatry" on Tuesday, May 16th, 2023, 6-8pm, LG4, D07.

 

Alfred Freeborn is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences Research Group at the MPIWG. Alfred currently investigates changes in how psychiatric research has been evaluated as part of the postwar globalization of biomedicine.

Selected Publications:

  • Freeborn, Alfred (2023). What Can the History of Schizophrenia Teach Us About “Revolutionary” Breakthroughs in Science and Medicine? (film). Latest Thinking. https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB101083.
  • Keuck, L. K., & Freeborn, A. (2020). The Limits of Biomarkers. Contemporary Re-Phrasings of Canguilhem. In P.-O. Méthot (Ed.), Vital Norms: Canguilhem's "The Normal and the Pathological" in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 346-367). Paris: Hermann.
  • Freeborn, A. (2019). The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. History of the Human Sciences, 32(3), 145-154. doi:10.1177/0952695118815554.

 

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