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Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Borck

Curriculum Vitae

2023 Member, National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

2016 Member, Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

2007 Professor of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine and Sciences. Director of the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lübeck.

2004 Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine, Department of Social Studies of Medicine & Department of Art History and Communication, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

2003 Habilitation in the history of medicine and science, Freie Universität Berlin.

2002 Research group “Writing Life. Media Technology and the Sciences of Life (1800-1900)” at the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University Weimar.

1998 Karl Schädler Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

1996 Postdoc at the Research Training Group “Genesis, Structures and Consequences of Science and Technology” at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University.

1996 PhD in Neuroscience, Imperial College, University of London.

1995 Medical Dissertation, Free University Berlin.

1994 Magister Artium in Philosophy, Free University Berlin.

Born in Hamburg in 1965, Cornelius Borck studied medicine, philosophy, religious studies and history of medicine in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Berlin.