Ort: Seminarraum Forschung I (im Bibliotheksbau)
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Meeting-ID: 754 339 2022
Kenncode: 624841 

Prof. Dr. Amir Teicher
Latent Tuberculosis through the Ages

Abstract
 From the 1990s until recently, the prevailing view held that one-third of the world’s population was latently infected with tuberculosis. Concern about latent tuberculosis and its implications for individual and public health is not new: it dates back two centuries, when postmortem examinations revealed peculiar structures in the lungs of some patients. These structures, known as granulomas, were recognized as characteristic of pulmonary tuberculosis. Yet they were also found in the lungs of many people who had died from other causes. These findings helped give rise to the idea that tuberculosis could persist for years or even decades in a latent state. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, amid the bacteriological revolution and the proliferation of diagnostic tools, the meaning of latency repeatedly changed. This lecture surveys two centuries of medical history, examining how interactions among technology, scientific theory, politics, and social prejudice have shaped the ways in which latent tuberculosis has been understood, defined, and addressed.

Short Bio
Amir Teicher is a professor of history at Tel Aviv University, and currently a guest professor at the LMU (Chair of History of Science). He published extensively on the history of medicine, Nazism, racial science, genetics and eugenics, and his book Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900-1948, has been published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. Until recently Teicher has been an Alexander-von-Humboldt research fellow, working on a second book which unpacks the 200-year history of “Disease Carriers” (Krankheits(über)träger), as a social, cultural, and scientific concept. Teicher has also been a member of the Lancet commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust and is the academic head of the Wiener Archive for the study of the Nazi era at Tel Aviv University.