Waltraud Ernst
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waltraud Ernst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waltraud |
| FAMILY NAME | Ernst |
| SIGNATURE | ERNST W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1891-3540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grüner‘ Wasserstoff zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise? Auf der Suche nach alternativen feministischen Energiezukünften
‚Grüner‘ Wasserstoff (GH2) wird von den EUMitgliedstaaten als „Schlüsseltechnologie“ der Energiewende gehandelt, wobei jedoch erhebliche Effizienzverluste dessen großflächigen Einsatz infrage stellen. Zugleich reproduzieren europäische GH2-Strategien (neo-)koloniale Machtverhältnisse und blockieren sozial-ökologische Transformation. Feministische Kritik hebt androzentrische Verkürzungen in der Klimakrisenpolitik hervor, welche komplexe sozial-öko…
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Medizin? Intersektionale queerfeministische Kritik und Orientierung
Algorithmen werden als zentrale Akteure der digitalen Transformation gehandelt. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird als Lösung für dringende aktuelle und zukünftige Probleme in der Medizin gerahmt. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie – oft unbewusst – faktisch diskriminierende Werte sozialer Ordnung in Algorithmen eingeschrieben werden und der weithin beklagte Gender Bias sowie rassistische Diskriminierung fortgeschrieben oder sogar verstärkt wird.…
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
Article Bettina Bock von Wülfingen: Die Familie unter dem Mikroskop. Das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch und die Eizelle 1870–1900 was published on May 1, 2022 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 40, issue 1)
Phänomene des Werdens
Feminist new materialisms
For the editors of this collection, new materialisms have always been the entanglement of epistemology, ontology, ethics, and politics. Looking back to the notion of “situated knowledges” (Haraway, 1988) that – among others – “planted the seed for feminist new materialism” (van der Tuin, 2015, 26) – one sees how those (at least) four planes are entangled (Rogowska-Stangret, 2018) in order to bring forth “response-able” (Haraway, 2008) research. N…
Feminist New Materialisms
The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018
Histories of madness in South Asia
The majority of publications by historians on madness in South Asia have been written since the 1990s. Despite certain scholarly lacunae, the history of madness in South Asia in its manifold guises seems to be in good health. Alongside its African twin, it occupies a prominent niche in the wider field of history of psychiatry. One concerns a critical conceptual approach that acknowledges connections and crossovers rather than merely dissemination…
Mixed voices
This article aims at showing the relevance of family biographies to a social history of transnational identities. It focuses on individuals from four generations of an extended family of South Asian descent – all of them outstanding in their chosen fields. The path of an Indian psychiatrist working in early twentieth-century colonial India crosses with that of an eminent Indian philologist and language instructor based in Berlin when he marries t…
Activism by Other Means
In her new book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway turns on both “apocalyptic or salvific futures.” She departs with a declared anti-utopian project, “a practic
In Connection
The paper offers a historical outline of the main positions and protagonists of feminist epistemology as a specific field in philosophy at the end of the twentieth century, in the context of a feminist critique of knowledge in academia in general as part of international feminist movements. The main question discussed is whether there is a specific feminist concept of philosophical and scientific knowledge. If so, what is its innovative aspect? W…
Feministische Technikphilosophie
Feministische Technikphilosophie untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhältnissen mit technologischer Forschung und Entwicklung. ›Technik‹ wird dabei grundsätzlich als kulturelles Projekt und Produkt verstanden, das in soziokulturellen Prozessen von Personen in ihren jeweiligen soziokulturellen Positionierungen mit vielfältigen politischen und ökonomischen Interessen hergestellt wird. ›Geschlecht‹ wird dabei als Kategorie verstanden, die…
The limits of comparison
This article presents a case study of institutional trends in a psychiatric institution in British India during the early twentieth century. It focuses on mortality statistics and long-term confinement rates as well as causes of death. The intention is two-fold: first, to provide new material that potentially lends itself to comparison with the few existing institutional case studies that have explored this particular period; second, to highlight…
Crossing the Boundaries of ‘Colonial Psychiatry’. Reflections on the Development of Psychiatry in British India, c. 1870–1940
Psychiatry and Empire
Crossing colonial historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much…
Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
Journal Article Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India Get access Guy Attewell, Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India, Hyderabad; Orient Longman, 2007. Pp. 316. $40. ISBN 81-250-3017-4. Waltraud Ernst Waltraud Ernst Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 416–418, https:/…
India's Princely States
1. People, Princes and Colonialism Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati 2. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography and the Princely States: Relations of Power and Rituals of Legitimation Hira Singh 3. 'Cruel, Oriental Despots': Representations in Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Fiction, 1858-1900 Indrani Sen 4. Narcotrafficking, Princely Ingenuity and the Raj: The Subjugation of the Sindia State, c. 1843-44 Amar Farooqui 5. The Agrarian System o…
Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia
Journal Article Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia Get access Waltraud Ernst Waltraud Ernst * *Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 505–524, https://doi.…
India's Princely States
Maria S. Rerrich, Die ganze Welt zu Hause. Cosmobile Putzfrauen in privaten Haushalten
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Asian Medicine
Colonial Psychiatry, Magic and Religion. The Case of Mesmerism in British India
This article is concerned with the development of early nineteenth-century Western medicine and psychiatry in relation to religion and magic during British colonial rule in India. The case of mesmerism is taken to illustrate that ‘colonial medicine/psychiatry in India’ itself was plural in nature, being made up of a variety of different, at times competing, strands. Religious connotations and references to spiritual enlightenment increasingly pos…
Madness, Cannabis, and Colonialism
James Mills suggests in his introduction that while colonial asylums in India were meant to control and regulate itinerant and dangerous Indians, they became in reality arenas for contestation and resistance to alien rule. This is developed into a more sophisticated discussion of the interplay of knowledge, power, and agency in the final sections. Here Mills concurs with the important point raised in recent debates about postcolonial histories th…
Imperial Bodies
1University of Southampton Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800–1947 E. M.Collingham OxfordPolity 2001288£50 Paperback£15.99
Mad Tales from the Raj
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Colonial Psychiatry, Magic and Religion. The Case of Mesmerism in British India
This article is concerned with the development of early nineteenth-century Western medicine and psychiatry in relation to religion and magic during British colonial rule in India. The case of mesmerism is taken to illustrate that ‘colonial medicine/psychiatry in India’ itself was plural in nature, being made up of a variety of different, at times competing, strands. Religious connotations and references to spiritual enlightenment increasingly pos…
Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
Journal Article Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India Get access Guy Attewell, Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India, Hyderabad; Orient Longman, 2007. Pp. 316. $40. ISBN 81-250-3017-4. Waltraud Ernst Waltraud Ernst Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 416–418, https:/…
Feminist New Materialisms
The idea to create a Special Issue journal around the topic of feminist new materialisms emerged out of the editors' collaboration in the frames of European project New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on 'How Matter Comes to Matter' (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), and more specifically it was born at the 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms, held at Utrecht University in June 2018
European Madness and Gender in Nineteenth-century Birtish India
The aim of this article is to explore whether gender was a linchpin in the construction of Europeans' mental health in nineteenth-century British India. A relational model of gender will be employed which places emphasis on the complementarity of men's and women's mental problems within the socio-economic, political and cultural confines of nineteenth-century colonialism. The postulate of a 'female malady' which has been promulgated in recent acc…
Mad tales from the raj
Mad tales from the raj
Doctor-patient interaction in colonial India
Mad Tales from the Raj
Short Reviews
Short Reviews Get access Bonnie Blair O'Connor, Healing Traditions, Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 Pp. xxiii + 287. Np. ISBN 0-8122-1398-X. WALTRAUD ERNST WALTRAUD ERNST University of Southampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 505-b–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/…
European Madness and Gender in Nineteenth-century Birtish India
The aim of this article is to explore whether gender was a linchpin in the construction of Europeans' mental health in nineteenth-century British India. A relational model of gender will be employed which places emphasis on the complementarity of men's and women's mental problems within the socio-economic, political and cultural confines of nineteenth-century colonialism. The postulate of a 'female malady' which has been promulgated in recent acc…
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Madness, Cannabis, and Colonialism
James Mills suggests in his introduction that while colonial asylums in India were meant to control and regulate itinerant and dangerous Indians, they became in reality arenas for contestation and resistance to alien rule. This is developed into a more sophisticated discussion of the interplay of knowledge, power, and agency in the final sections. Here Mills concurs with the important point raised in recent debates about postcolonial histories th…
Imperial Bodies
1University of Southampton Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800–1947 E. M.Collingham OxfordPolity 2001288£50 Paperback£15.99
Colonial Psychiatry, Magic and Religion. The Case of Mesmerism in British India
This article is concerned with the development of early nineteenth-century Western medicine and psychiatry in relation to religion and magic during British colonial rule in India. The case of mesmerism is taken to illustrate that ‘colonial medicine/psychiatry in India’ itself was plural in nature, being made up of a variety of different, at times competing, strands. Religious connotations and references to spiritual enlightenment increasingly pos…
Asian Medicine
Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
India's Princely States
1. People, Princes and Colonialism Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati 2. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography and the Princely States: Relations of Power and Rituals of Legitimation Hira Singh 3. 'Cruel, Oriental Despots': Representations in Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Fiction, 1858-1900 Indrani Sen 4. Narcotrafficking, Princely Ingenuity and the Raj: The Subjugation of the Sindia State, c. 1843-44 Amar Farooqui 5. The Agrarian System o…
Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia
Journal Article Beyond East and West. From the History of Colonial Medicine to a Social History of Medicine(s) in South Asia Get access Waltraud Ernst Waltraud Ernst * *Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 20, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 505–524, https://doi.…
India's Princely States
Maria S. Rerrich, Die ganze Welt zu Hause. Cosmobile Putzfrauen in privaten Haushalten
Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
Journal Article Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India Get access Guy Attewell, Refiguring Unani Tibb. Plural Healing in Late Colonial India, Hyderabad; Orient Longman, 2007. Pp. 316. $40. ISBN 81-250-3017-4. Waltraud Ernst Waltraud Ernst Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, August 2008, Pages 416–418, https:/…
Psychiatry and Empire
Crossing colonial historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political cultures has led to a wide range of approaches and increasingly distinct traditions of historical writing about colonial and indigenous modes of healing have emerged in the various regions formerly ruled by different colonial powers. The volume offers a much…
Crossing the Boundaries of ‘Colonial Psychiatry’. Reflections on the Development of Psychiatry in British India, c. 1870–1940
The limits of comparison
This article presents a case study of institutional trends in a psychiatric institution in British India during the early twentieth century. It focuses on mortality statistics and long-term confinement rates as well as causes of death. The intention is two-fold: first, to provide new material that potentially lends itself to comparison with the few existing institutional case studies that have explored this particular period; second, to highlight…
Feministische Technikphilosophie
Feministische Technikphilosophie untersucht die Verwobenheit von Geschlechterverhältnissen mit technologischer Forschung und Entwicklung. ›Technik‹ wird dabei grundsätzlich als kulturelles Projekt und Produkt verstanden, das in soziokulturellen Prozessen von Personen in ihren jeweiligen soziokulturellen Positionierungen mit vielfältigen politischen und ökonomischen Interessen hergestellt wird. ›Geschlecht‹ wird dabei als Kategorie verstanden, die…
In Connection
The paper offers a historical outline of the main positions and protagonists of feminist epistemology as a specific field in philosophy at the end of the twentieth century, in the context of a feminist critique of knowledge in academia in general as part of international feminist movements. The main question discussed is whether there is a specific feminist concept of philosophical and scientific knowledge. If so, what is its innovative aspect? W…
Histories of madness in South Asia
The majority of publications by historians on madness in South Asia have been written since the 1990s. Despite certain scholarly lacunae, the history of madness in South Asia in its manifold guises seems to be in good health. Alongside its African twin, it occupies a prominent niche in the wider field of history of psychiatry. One concerns a critical conceptual approach that acknowledges connections and crossovers rather than merely dissemination…
Mixed voices
This article aims at showing the relevance of family biographies to a social history of transnational identities. It focuses on individuals from four generations of an extended family of South Asian descent – all of them outstanding in their chosen fields. The path of an Indian psychiatrist working in early twentieth-century colonial India crosses with that of an eminent Indian philologist and language instructor based in Berlin when he marries t…
Activism by Other Means
In her new book, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway turns on both “apocalyptic or salvific futures.” She departs with a declared anti-utopian project, “a practic
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