TY - JOUR AU - Stahnisch, Frank W. PY - 2010/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - German-Speaking Émigré Neuroscientists in North America after 1933: Critical Reflections on Emigration-Induced Scientific Change JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften JA - OeZG VL - 21 IS - 3 SE - research paper DO - 10.25365/oezg-2010-21-3-3 UR - https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/3850 SP - 36–68 AB - <p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro';">This paper endeavors to document and analyze the impact of forced-migration of German-speaking neuroscientists to Canada and the United States during the National-Socialist era, while specifically focusing on concepts and scientific applications of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; font-style: italic;">interdisciplinarity </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro';">in 20</span><span style="font-size: 6.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro'; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">th </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionPro';">century neuroscientific research. The objectives of this paper are firstly, to describe the general research topic; secondly, to introduce a new model for the historiography and social studies of forced-migration in the neurosciences and thirdly, to explore, in a preliminary way, the impact that particular Central- European émigré-researchers had on this emerging postwar biomedical field in North America. </span></p> ER -