“Towards a History of Epistemic Genres: Textbook and Commentary, Case and Recipe in the Making of Medical Knowledge” is the title of the conference on Medical History held at Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June 2015.
The hosts Yvonne Wübben (Freie Universität Berlin) and Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University Baltimore) are aiming to explore the role of genres in the production and transmission of scientific knowledge, focusing on four basic textual forms: the textbook, the commentary, the case and the recipe.
For further information and full conference programme see here.
Till Kappus & John Schlesinger
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