Dr Gladys Kostyrka
Job Title
Research Fellow
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Email
gkostyrk@ed.ac.uk
Personal website
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/GladysKostyrka
Twitter username
https://twitter.com/@KostyrkaG/
Room number
2.27Building (Address)
Chisholm HouseStreet (Address)
High School YardsCity (Address)
EdinburghPost code (Address)
EH1 1LZResearch interests
Research themes
Research interests
- Philosophy and history of the life sciences
- Social, philosophical and historical studies of health and disease
- Transdisciplinarity in Epidemiology: biomedical, social and human sciences
- Anthropology and psychiatry
Background
Philosopher and historian of the biological and medical sciences, her research first focused on viruses, controversies about their nature, the definition and origin of life (PhD dissertation, IHPST, Paris 1 University). As a post-doctorate scholar at the School of Social and Political Science (Edinburgh University), she investigates the various forms and challenges of transdisciplinarity in epidemiology throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, taking as a starting point the integration of anthropological approaches in the responses to Ebola epidemics from the 1970s until today.