Veronika Lipphardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 128355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronika Lipphardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronika |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipphardt |
| SIGNATURE | LIPPHARDT V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Representing vulnerable populations in genetic studies: The case of the Roma
Argument Moreau (2019) has raised concerns about the use of DNA data obtained from vulnerable populations, such as the Uighurs in China. We discuss another case, situated in Europe and with a research history dating back 100 years: genetic investigations of Roma. In our article, we focus on problems surrounding representativity in these studies. We claim that many of the circa 440 publications in our sample neglect the methodological and conceptu…
Vertane Chancen? Die aktuelle politische Debatte um Erweiterte DNA‐Analysen in Ermittlungsverfahren
Wasted Chances? The Current Political Debate on DNA Phenotyping and Biogeographical Ancestry Analysis in Criminal Investigation in Germany . This paper discusses diverse understandings of ‘responsible science’ in heated political debates. It takes a current public debate around a German law amendment draft concerning the use of novel forensic genetic techniques, namely DNA‐phenotyping and biogeographical ancestry analysis, as an example. A distin…
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
Kritische Interventionen in den Lebenswissenschaften – (k)eine Aufgabe für die Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Critical Interventions in the Life Sciences – not a Task for the History of Science? This brief paper asks whether historians of science – along with scholars from Science and Technology Studies – should intervene if, in their research, they come across ethically and societally problematic behavior of scientists. I discuss whether and how interventions can be made in such a case that go beyond publishing scholarly articles. In contrast to Nichola…
The Body as a Substrate of Differentiation. Shifting the Focus from Race Science to Life Scientists' Research on Human Variation
This article suggests to focus on the history of human variation instead of focussing on the history of race science. It views the latter as a subset of the former, hence views race science as embedded into the larger field of life scientists' investigations into human variation. This paper explores why human variation is such an attractive and productive object particularly for the life sciences. It proposes that knowledge about human variation …
Traditions and innovations: Visualizations of human variation, c .1900–38
This article gives an overview of the visual culture shared by a number of scientists studying human variation in the first half of the 20th century. This was a time when most scientists shared the conceptual and terminological framework of ‘racial classifications’ to capture the structure of human variation. Clearly, drawings – and later photographs – of people from all over the world constituted a crucial part of the well-established visual cul…
Visibility matters: Diagrammatic renderings of human evolution and diversity in physical, serological and molecular anthropology
Images are at the heart of strategies of persuasion. They render certain aspects visible and leave others unrepresented; and they may shape processes of scientific reasoning and imagination. By tracing diagrammatic images in the anthropological sciences throughout the 20 th century, the contributions to this special issue highlight some dominant pictorial traditions for rendering human evolution and diversity visible. This article aims to provide…
Geographical Distribution Patterns of Various Genes”: Genetic studies of human variation after 1945
Rezension: Rasse im Buch. Antisemitische und rassistische Publikationen in Verlagsprogrammen der Weimarer Republik von Wiebke Wiede
Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; or, A Contextualization of German Race Science
Historians have drawn a line between scientific racism, exemplified in the typological approach of German race scientists, and population-based approaches toward races or human genetic diversity. The postwar time is often understood as a watershed in this respect. My argument is that typological and population-based race concepts cannot be so easily segregated either before or after World War II. In spite of noteworthy differences between the two…
The Jewish community of Rome: An isolated population? Sampling procedures and bio-historical narratives in genetic analysis in the 1950s
Neuverzauberung im Gestus der Wissenschaftlichkeit: Wissenspraktiken im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel menschlicher Diversität
Taking the example of research on biological diversity in the 20th century, this article analyzes the social practices that are entailed in the emergence, stabilization, and circulation of scientific knowledge. It stresses that scientific knowledge also depends on processes of recognition and that very often a special aura is constructed that goes beyond what can be substantiated on a sheer technical level. We refer to this as »the re-enchantment…
Die Geschichten vom Ba'al Schem Tov/Schivche ha-Bescht
The Potsdam Model of Teacher Training: [Germany] The Student's Viewpoint
had a properly formulated discussion of the course program for education courses at the University of Potsdam (UP) and the student teaching program pertaining to it. After receiving the blessing of the Ministry, these henceforth constitute the core of the Potsdam model of teacher training (PML). The genesis of this set of guidelines, binding on students and teachers alike, in a sense mirrors the tentative implementation of the local model the int…
Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; or, A Contextualization of German Race Science
Historians have drawn a line between scientific racism, exemplified in the typological approach of German race scientists, and population-based approaches toward races or human genetic diversity. The postwar time is often understood as a watershed in this respect. My argument is that typological and population-based race concepts cannot be so easily segregated either before or after World War II. In spite of noteworthy differences between the two…
Vertane Chancen? Die aktuelle politische Debatte um Erweiterte DNA‐Analysen in Ermittlungsverfahren
Wasted Chances? The Current Political Debate on DNA Phenotyping and Biogeographical Ancestry Analysis in Criminal Investigation in Germany . This paper discusses diverse understandings of ‘responsible science’ in heated political debates. It takes a current public debate around a German law amendment draft concerning the use of novel forensic genetic techniques, namely DNA‐phenotyping and biogeographical ancestry analysis, as an example. A distin…
Visibility matters: Diagrammatic renderings of human evolution and diversity in physical, serological and molecular anthropology
Images are at the heart of strategies of persuasion. They render certain aspects visible and leave others unrepresented; and they may shape processes of scientific reasoning and imagination. By tracing diagrammatic images in the anthropological sciences throughout the 20 th century, the contributions to this special issue highlight some dominant pictorial traditions for rendering human evolution and diversity visible. This article aims to provide…
Geographical Distribution Patterns of Various Genes”: Genetic studies of human variation after 1945
Neuverzauberung im Gestus der Wissenschaftlichkeit: Wissenspraktiken im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel menschlicher Diversität
Taking the example of research on biological diversity in the 20th century, this article analyzes the social practices that are entailed in the emergence, stabilization, and circulation of scientific knowledge. It stresses that scientific knowledge also depends on processes of recognition and that very often a special aura is constructed that goes beyond what can be substantiated on a sheer technical level. We refer to this as »the re-enchantment…
The Body as a Substrate of Differentiation. Shifting the Focus from Race Science to Life Scientists' Research on Human Variation
This article suggests to focus on the history of human variation instead of focussing on the history of race science. It views the latter as a subset of the former, hence views race science as embedded into the larger field of life scientists' investigations into human variation. This paper explores why human variation is such an attractive and productive object particularly for the life sciences. It proposes that knowledge about human variation …
The Potsdam Model of Teacher Training: [Germany] The Student's Viewpoint
had a properly formulated discussion of the course program for education courses at the University of Potsdam (UP) and the student teaching program pertaining to it. After receiving the blessing of the Ministry, these henceforth constitute the core of the Potsdam model of teacher training (PML). The genesis of this set of guidelines, binding on students and teachers alike, in a sense mirrors the tentative implementation of the local model the int…
Die Geschichten vom Ba'al Schem Tov/Schivche ha-Bescht
Neuverzauberung im Gestus der Wissenschaftlichkeit: Wissenspraktiken im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel menschlicher Diversität
Taking the example of research on biological diversity in the 20th century, this article analyzes the social practices that are entailed in the emergence, stabilization, and circulation of scientific knowledge. It stresses that scientific knowledge also depends on processes of recognition and that very often a special aura is constructed that goes beyond what can be substantiated on a sheer technical level. We refer to this as »the re-enchantment…
The Jewish community of Rome: An isolated population? Sampling procedures and bio-historical narratives in genetic analysis in the 1950s
Rezension: Rasse im Buch. Antisemitische und rassistische Publikationen in Verlagsprogrammen der Weimarer Republik von Wiebke Wiede
Isolates and Crosses in Human Population Genetics; or, A Contextualization of German Race Science
Historians have drawn a line between scientific racism, exemplified in the typological approach of German race scientists, and population-based approaches toward races or human genetic diversity. The postwar time is often understood as a watershed in this respect. My argument is that typological and population-based race concepts cannot be so easily segregated either before or after World War II. In spite of noteworthy differences between the two…
Geographical Distribution Patterns of Various Genes”: Genetic studies of human variation after 1945
Traditions and innovations: Visualizations of human variation, c .1900–38
This article gives an overview of the visual culture shared by a number of scientists studying human variation in the first half of the 20th century. This was a time when most scientists shared the conceptual and terminological framework of ‘racial classifications’ to capture the structure of human variation. Clearly, drawings – and later photographs – of people from all over the world constituted a crucial part of the well-established visual cul…
Visibility matters: Diagrammatic renderings of human evolution and diversity in physical, serological and molecular anthropology
Images are at the heart of strategies of persuasion. They render certain aspects visible and leave others unrepresented; and they may shape processes of scientific reasoning and imagination. By tracing diagrammatic images in the anthropological sciences throughout the 20 th century, the contributions to this special issue highlight some dominant pictorial traditions for rendering human evolution and diversity visible. This article aims to provide…
The Body as a Substrate of Differentiation. Shifting the Focus from Race Science to Life Scientists' Research on Human Variation
This article suggests to focus on the history of human variation instead of focussing on the history of race science. It views the latter as a subset of the former, hence views race science as embedded into the larger field of life scientists' investigations into human variation. This paper explores why human variation is such an attractive and productive object particularly for the life sciences. It proposes that knowledge about human variation …
Vertane Chancen? Die aktuelle politische Debatte um Erweiterte DNA‐Analysen in Ermittlungsverfahren
Wasted Chances? The Current Political Debate on DNA Phenotyping and Biogeographical Ancestry Analysis in Criminal Investigation in Germany . This paper discusses diverse understandings of ‘responsible science’ in heated political debates. It takes a current public debate around a German law amendment draft concerning the use of novel forensic genetic techniques, namely DNA‐phenotyping and biogeographical ancestry analysis, as an example. A distin…
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
Kritische Interventionen in den Lebenswissenschaften – (k)eine Aufgabe für die Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Critical Interventions in the Life Sciences – not a Task for the History of Science? This brief paper asks whether historians of science – along with scholars from Science and Technology Studies – should intervene if, in their research, they come across ethically and societally problematic behavior of scientists. I discuss whether and how interventions can be made in such a case that go beyond publishing scholarly articles. In contrast to Nichola…
Representing vulnerable populations in genetic studies: The case of the Roma
Argument Moreau (2019) has raised concerns about the use of DNA data obtained from vulnerable populations, such as the Uighurs in China. We discuss another case, situated in Europe and with a research history dating back 100 years: genetic investigations of Roma. In our article, we focus on problems surrounding representativity in these studies. We claim that many of the circa 440 publications in our sample neglect the methodological and conceptu…
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · History (6 works)