Dr. Bernhard Leitner, BA, MA
Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine
Position: Research Associate (Postdoc)
ORCID: 0000-0003-0058-3528
T +43 1 40160 26017
bernhard.leitner@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
History of Medicine
Research interests
I am a historian of science and medicine with a keen interest in processes of knowledge production and transnational circulation. I specialise in the history of brain science, neurology and psychiatry in Habsburg Austria and the First Republic, the Japanese Empire and Korea under Japanese colonial rule.
Selected publications
- Leitner, B. (2023) ‘Geschlecht, „Rasse“ und Gehirn’, Medizinhistorisches Journal, 58(3), pp. 162–190. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25162/mhj-2023-0006.
- Leitner, B. (2018) ‘Psychiatrie und Neurologie zwischen Wien und Tokyo. Zur Rolle eines transnationalen Netzwerkes in der Entwicklung der akademischen Medizin in Japan circa 1900’, Strukturen und Netzwerke, pp. 533–554. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737009164.533.
- Leitner, B. (2014) ‘Zum Transfer von Psychiatrie: Narrative, Termini und transkulturelle Psychiatrie in Japan’, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 22(3), pp. 163–180. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-014-0113-9.
- Leitner, B. (2014) ‘For Body, Mind and the Nation: An Archaeology of Modern Japanese Psychiatry’, Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 5(1), pp. 111–138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2014-0005.