A new updated edition of the first integrated and comprehensive textbook to explain the principles of evolutionary biology from a medical perspective and to focus on how medicine and public health might utilise evolutionary biology.

Wandlungen und Brüche sind heute zu zentralen Analyseperspektiven der Wissenschaftsgeschichte avanciert. Sie rücken Institutionen, handelnde Personen, Forschungspraktiken und Wissenskulturen in ein neues Licht und machen Wissenschaftsgeschichte als politische Geschichte beschreibbar. Wissenschaft und Politik können voneinander profitieren. Von Mitchell G. Ash ausgehend, dass wissenschaftliche Wandlungen häufig in Zeiten politischer Umbrüche erfolgen, untersuchen junge und arrivierte WissenschaftshistorikerInnen in diesem epochenübergreifenden Buch Wandlungen und Brüche in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Sie erkunden damit die individuellen und kollektiven Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten in der wissenschaftlichen Produktion. Today, changes and breaks are the central perspectives of analysis of the scientific history. They put institutions, acting figures, research practices and knowledge cultures in a new light and make scientific history describable. Science and politics can profit from one another. Based on Mitchell G. Ash's view that scientific changes often appear in times of political upheavals, young and established scientific historians examine in this cross-epochal book changes and breaks in scientific history. They hence explore the individual and collective design options in scientific productions.

The analysis of local and international relations of "Vienna Medicine" in the 19th and 20th century and its networks and structures from an important research desiderate. The volume examines these relations with the aim to re-contextualise the history of medical research and practice in Vienna. The contributions of the volume analyse mobility, exchange processes of knowledge, standards and guidelines, social and professional networking, politics, transformations of political and philosophical concepts 'between' centers of medicine, exchange of artistic and medical spheres, and commemoration practices - as transnational phenomena and in their influence on medical research and practice in Vienna.