Prof. Dr. phil. Staffan Müller-Wille

Publications 2021

"Corners, Tables, Lines: Towards a Diagrammatics of Race." Nuncius 21 (3=Special Issue "Science and Race," Guest editors Claudio Pogliano and Mauro Capocci), pp. 517–531.

with Nick Hopwood, Janet Browne, Christiane Groeben, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Maaike van der Lugt, Guido Giglioni, Lynn K. Nyhart, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Ariane Dröscher, Warwick Anderson, Peder Anker, Mathias Grote, Lucy van de Wiel. "Cycles and Circulation: A Theme in the History of Biology and Medicine." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43, 89, doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00425-3.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Die offene Zukunft des Gens." In Fünfter Gentechnologiebericht. Sachstand und Perspektiven für Forschung und Anwendung, edited by Boris Fehse et al. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 261–276. Updated, German version of ch. 10 in [4].

Complete publication list for download (June 2020)

Books (selection)

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

with Christina Brandt (Hrsg.): Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr., 2016.

with Bernd Gausemeier und Edmund Ramsden (Hrsg.), Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Vererbung: Geschichte und Kultur eines biologischen Konzepts, Frankfurt/M.: S. Fischer Verlag, 2009.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Das Gen im Zeitalter der Postgenomik. Eine wissenschaftshistorische Bestandsaufnahme, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp (edition unseld), 2009.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture 1500-1870, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007.

Special issues and sections in journals

with Isabelle Charmantier (Hrsg.), Special Issue “Worlds on Paper,” Early Science and Medicine 19(5: 2014).

with James Delbourgo, Focus Section “Listmania,” Isis, vol. 103 (4: 2012), pp. 710-752.

with Maria Kronfeldner, special issue “Causation and Disease,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33(4: 2011). 

with Maureen O’Malley, Part Special Issue “Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Cell Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 41 (3: 2010), pp. 169–171.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Forum “Race and Genomics: Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from a Transdisciplinary Discussion,” NTM – Journal of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, New Series, vol. 16 (3: 2008), pp. 363–386.

Articles in journals (selection)

“Names and Numbers: “Data” in Classical Natural History, 1758–1859,“ Osiris, vol. 32 (=Data Histories, edited by Elena Aranova, Christine von Oertzen and David Sepkoski), pp. 109–128.

with Isabelle Charmantier, “Carl Linnaeus’s Botanical Paper Slips (1767–1773),“ Intellectual History Review vol. 24 (2: 2014), pp. 215–238. 

“Race and History: Comments from an Epistemological Point of View,” Science, Technology and Human Values, vol. 39 (4: 2013), pp. 597–606.

with Katrin Böhme, “In der Jungfernheide hinterm Pulvermagazin frequens. Das Handexemplar des Florae Berolinensis Prodromus (1787) von Karl Ludwig Willdenow,” NTM – Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Medizin und Technik, New Series, vol. 21 (1), pp. 93–106.

with Isabelle Charmantier, “Natural history and information overload: The case of Linnaeus,” Studies in Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43(1: 2012), pp. 4–15.

“Claude Lévi-Strauss on race, history, and genetics,” BioSocieties, vol. 5 (3: 2010), pp. 330-347.

“The Dark Side of Evolution: Caprice, Deceit, Redundancy,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 31 (2), pp. 183–199 

Articles in edited volumes (selection)

“Reproducing difference: Race and heredity from a longue durée perspective,” in Race, Gender and Reproduction: Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences in Context, hrsg. v. S. Lettow, New York: SUNY Press, 2014, pp. 217–23.

“History of science and medicine,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, hrsg. v. Mark Jackson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 469–483 

“Vom Sexualsystem zur Karteikarte: Carl von Linnés Papiertechnologien,” in Nicht Fisch – nicht Fleisch. Ordnungssysteme und ihre Störfälle, hrsg. v. Thomas Bäumler, Benjamin Bühler and Stefan Rieger, Zürich: diaphanes, 2011, pp. 33–50.

with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, “Technische Reproduzierbarkeit organischer Natur – aus der Perspektive einer Geschichte der Molekularbiologie,” in Bios und Zoë. Die menschliche Natur im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, hrsg. v. M. G. Weiß, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2009, pp. 11-33.