Nils Hansson – författare

Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that regionThe Baltic Sea region in northern Europe, with its history of multiple cultural and social transformations, as well as mixture of national and regional scientific styles, has lately attracted much attention from scholars of various disciplines. This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a discipline, and illness as an experience, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The anthology consists of ten chapters that shed new light on how medical ideas and devices were developed in different contexts. Illuminating currents of traditions, contact zones, and areas of conflict, essays in this collection discuss technological, social, and economic aspects relevant for the exchange of medical knowledge across the Baltic Sea. The contributing authors are historians, physicians, geographers, ethnologists, and scholars of literature.CONTRIBUTORS: Katharina Beier, Motzi Eklöf, Frank Grüner, Martin Gunnarson, Nils Hansson, Axel C. Hüntelmann, Ken Kalling, Michaela Malmberg, Joanna Nieznanowska, Anders Ottosson, Maike Rotzoll, Erki Tammiksaar, Jonatan WistrandNILS HANSSON is Associate Professor in the Department of the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. JONATAN WISTRAND teaches in the Department of Medical History, Lund University, Sweden.

Forschungspreise sind starke Zeichen für herausragende Leistungen in der Medizin. Seit genau 120 Jahren wird die prestigeträchtigste Auszeichnung für MedizinerInnen in Stockholm vergeben. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buchs steht die Geschichte des Nobelpreises in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Mit zwölf Beiträgen von ForscherInnen aus Deutschland, Österreich, Schweden und der Schweiz hebt dieser Band methodische und thematische Zugänge zur interdisziplinären (Nobel-)Preisforschung hervor und liefert neue Impulse. Er untersucht die Selektion preiswürdiger Ideen aus medizinhistorischer Perspektive und möchte eine kritische Debatte über die Funktionen von wissenschaftlichen Preisen fördern."Wie erhält man einen wichtigen Preis? Dieses Buch liefert Antworten." (Prof. Detlev Ganten, World Health Summit)For exactly 120 years now, the most prestigious award for medical professionals has been awarded in Stockholm. The focus of this book is the history of the Nobel Prize in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With eleven contributions by researchers from Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland, this book highlights methodological and thematic approaches to interdisciplinary (Nobel) prize research. It examines the selection of prize-worthy ideas from the medical historical perspective and aims to promote a critical debate on the functions of scientific prizes.

Attributing Excellence in Medicine discusses the aura around the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It analyzes the social processes and contingent factors leading to recognition and reputation in science and medicine. This volume will help the reader to better understand the dynamics of the attribution of excellence throughout the 20th century.Contributors are Massimiano Bucchi, Fabio De Sio, Jacalyn Duffin, Heiner Fangerau, Thorsten Halling, Nils Hansson, David S. Jones, Gustav Källstrand, Ulrich Koppitz, Pauline Mattsson, Katarina Nordqvist, Scott H. Podolsky, Thomas Schlich, and Sven Widmalm.

Awards shape careers, make research visible, and create role models. They provide evidence of prestige and credit and play a key role in evaluating individual scientists. Nevertheless, the understanding of prize cultures in science has remained surprisingly superficial. This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize. It contributes to modern approaches in history and sociology of science that focus on the social context of scientific practices and gives new insights into the role of status and impact in academia.

För varje utdelat Nobelpris finns en rad goda kandidater som lika gärna hade kunnat få det. Men spelar egentligen priser någon roll för arbetet? Vad blir effekten för vinnarna respektive förlorarna?

I Genier utan Nobelpris intervjuar Nils Hansson vetenskapliga ledare, författare och journalister för att komma närmare svaret. Vi följer dramat i tre akter, inte helt olikt den faktiska galan: bakom kulisserna, på scen och efterfesten. Men till skillnad från en tevesändning tillåts vi komma nära på riktigt. Tidigare konfidentiella protokoll visar att sanningen är betydligt mer komplex än “bäst vinner”.

Vi möter den amerikanske läkaren Paul Dudley White som hoppades på Nobels fredspris för sina kontakter med Sovjetunionen, italienaren Carlo Forlanini som föreslog att tuberkulos kunde behandlas genom att punktera en lunga, och den svensk-tyska genetikern Lore Zech som utvecklade ny cancerdiagnostik. Idag är många av dem bortglömda. Antingen fick de aldrig något erkännande, eller så kom det för sent. Men på ett eller annat sätt har de gjort världen bättre.