Wissen im Untergrund

Titel: Wissen im Untergrund : Praxis und Politik klandestiner Forschung im besetzten Polen (1939-1945) / Friedrich Cain
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Ausgabe: 1. Auflage
Veröffentlicht: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2021
Umfang: X, 534 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format: Buch
Sprache: Deutsch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Historische Wissensforschung ; 14
Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, Universität Konstanz, 2018
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
ISBN: 9783161589058 ; 316158905X
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Scientific research is bound to particular locations, times and practices. So what happens when its usual arsenal of instruments, books and technical equipment is disbanded? Friedrich Cain takes the case of Polish researchers working undercover during the German occupation of 1939-1945 to answer this question. Picking up on the socioscientific gaze that focussed itself on war-time conditions for Warsaw's inhabitants and society, he analyses the experimental systems of typhus fever research in Lemberg and a secret study on hunger in the Warsaw Ghetto, before describing attempts to organise research in physics. Thus revealed by the author is how practices and processes in the 'laboratory situation of war' were either replaced, reconfigured or energised, as well as the extent to which ideas of scientific neutrality were politicized.