Publications

Dr. Bernd Gausemeier

 

Monographs

  • Central Periphery. Biological and medical research in Berlin-Buch 1930-1990 (in preparation)
  • Natural orders and political alliances. Biological and biochemical research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 1933-1945, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005

 

Edited volumes

  • With Staffan Müller-Wille & Edmund Ramsden: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013
  • With Safia Azzouni, Christina Brandt, Julia Kursell, Henning Schmidgen & Barbara Wittmann: A Natural History for the 21st Century : Hommage à, in Honor of, in Honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2011

 

Essays

  • From pedigree to total genealogy. "Wissenschaftliche Genealogie" als biologisch-soziales Hybridfeld um 1900, in: Michael Hecht / Elisabeth Timm (eds.), Genealogie in der Moderne. Actors - Practices - Perspectives, Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 35-64. doi: 10.1515/9783110718034-004
  • In Search of the Ideal Population. The Study of Human Heredity before and after the Mendelian Break, in: Christina Brandt & Staffan Müller-Wille (eds.), Heredity Explored, Cambridge/MA: MIT Press, 2016, pp. 337-363
  • Pedigrees of Madness. The Study of Heredity in 19th and early 20th Century Psychiatry, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 36 (2015), pp. 467-483
  • "Butenandt, Adolf", in: eLS, Chichester: Wiley, Nov. 2015
  • Borderlands of Heredity: The Debate about Hereditary Susceptibility to Tuberculosis, 1882-1945, in: B. Gausemeier/ S. Müller-Wille/ E. Ramsden, Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013, pp. 13-26
  • "Erwin Baur", Brenner's Encyclopedia of Genetics (2nd ed.), Vol. 1, Amsterdam et al: Elsevier, 2013, pp. 304-306
  • Genetics as a Modernization Program: Biological Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes and the Political Economy of the Nazi State, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 40 (2010), pp. 429-456
  • Political Positioning and Scientific Modernization: Botanical Research at the KWI for Biology and Its Place in National Socialist Science Policy, in: Mark Walker/ Susanne Heim/ Carola Sachse (eds.), The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Cambridge 2009, pp. 227-250
  • On the "Bridge between Natural and Historical Science". Ottokar Lorenz and the reinvention of genealogy around 1900, in: Florence Vienne/ Christina Brandt (eds.), Wissensobjekt Mensch. Practices of the Human Sciences in the 20th Century, Berlin 2008, pp. 137-164
  • With Jean-Paul Gaudillière: Molding National Research Systems. The Introduction of Penicillin to Germany and France, in: Carola Sachse/ Mark Walker (eds.), A Comparative History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Osiris Vol. 20, 2005, pp. 180-202
  • On the home front. "Kriegswichtige" Forschungen am KWI für Biochemie, in: Wolfgang Schieder/ Achim Trunk (eds.), Adolf Butenandt und die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. Science, Industry and Politics in the "Third Reich", Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004, pp. 134-168
  • Rassenhygienische Radikalisierung und kollegialer Konsens, in: Carola Sachse (ed.), Die Verbindung nach Auschwitz. Biosciences and Human Experimentation at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2003, pp. 178-198
  • With Michael Schüring: Drama without end? The debate about Heisenberg, Bohr and the atomic bomb, Physik Journal 1, No. 4 (2002), pp. 54-58
  • With a network and a double bottom. Botanical research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biology and National Socialist science policy, in: Susanne Heim (ed.), Autarkie und Ostexpansion. Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research under National Socialism, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002, pp. 180-205