Life Support: Patients in the History of Intensive Care Units (1945-2000)
- Date
- 22 August 2025, 09:00–10:30
- Location
- University Main Building, Sal XI
- Type
- Lecture
- Lecturer
- Flurin Condrau
- Organiser
- Centre for Medical Humanities, Department of History of Science and Ideas, ActDisease
- Contact person
- Ylva Söderfeldt
Open keynote lecure during the workshop Cultivating Patients: Identities, Technologies, and Trading Zones of Patienthood. The lecture is open to the public. No pre-registration needed.
Open lecture with Flurin Condrau, Professor of History of Medicine, University of Zürich
Flurin Condrau is one of today's most influential medical historians. He has published extensively on the history of modern medicine, particularly the role of the patient. His publications include Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2016, co-authored with Jeremy Greene and Elizabeth Watkins Siegel) and Tuberculosis Then and Now: Current Issues in the History of an Infectious Disease (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010, co-authored with Michael Worboys). His work, particularly his theoretical perspective on patients and the writing of medical history, has had a significant impact on contemporary medical history research.