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Section: Science Technology and Innovation Studies
Emese Lafferton
- Name
- Dr Emese Lafferton
- Organisation
- Science Studies, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Chisholm House High School Yards Edinburgh UK 650 4014
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131
- Emese.Lafferton@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/stis/lafferton_e
Qualifications
- M.A. (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1994 and 1996)
- M.Phil. (History of Science and Technology, Open University, UK, 1999)
- Ph.D. (History, Central European University , Budapest , 2003)
Biographical Statement
Emese Lafferton joined the Science Studies Unit as a lecturer in the Autumn of 2006, where she teaches medical sociology and history of medicine. After the completion of her Ph.D. at the Central European University in Budapest , she held a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2003-2006), where she also taught courses on making the modern body and the history of psychiatry. She previously spent a year as a research associate at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL (2000-2001) and another year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California , Berkeley (1996-1997).
She is currently completing a book on Psychiatry's Dual Monarchy: The Mental Geography of Hungary in the Long 19 th Century, which is the first comprehensive history of Hungarian psychiatry in a wider European framework.
Her research interests include: history of C19 and C20 science and medicine; history of psychiatry; physical anthropology, ethnography, eugenics, and nationalism around 1900; C20 history of eugenics.
Selected Publications
“Murder by Hypnosis? Altered States and the Mental Geography of Science,” in Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Memory of Roy Porter . Ed. by John Pickstone and Roberta Bivins. New York : Palgrave Macmillan – forthcoming.
“What the Files Reveal. The Social Make-Up of Public Mental Asylums in Hungary , 1860s-1910s”, in ‘Moderne' Anstaltspsychiatrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert - Legitimation und Kritik (Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte – Beiheft 26). Ed. by Heiner Fangerau and Karen Nolte, 83-103. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.
“From Private Asylum to University Clinic: Hungarian Psychiatry, 1850-1908.” In Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History , ed. George S. Rousseau, et al. 190-213. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
“Hypnosis and Hysteria as Ongoing Processes of Negotiation. Ilma's Case from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy .”
Part I. History of Psychiatry 3 (2002) 177-197;
Part II. History of Psychiatry 4 (2002) 305-327.
Edited books:
Az információs társadalom és kultúra (Information Society and Culture). Ed. by Gábor Dombi and Emese Lafferton. Budapest : Replika Kör, 2001.
Central European Hysteria. Ed. by Miklós Hadas, Katalin Kovács, and Emese Lafferton. Budapest : Replika Kör, 1998.
Teaching
MSc course: History of Medicine
Honours course: Medical Sociology
This page was published on 3 September 2008