Alfred Freeborn
@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine living in Berlin writing about biomedicine and psychosis. Postdoc Research Fellow at the MPIWG. He/him.
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📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn:
"Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future.
🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ
#HistSci #HistArt
"Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future.
🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ
#HistSci #HistArt
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📗 New #OpenAccess volume edited by Elizabeth Hughes & Alfred Freeborn:
"Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future.
🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ
#HistSci #HistArt
"Biomedical Visions" brings together epistemology, medicine, and art to understand what biomedicine looks like and how we might view it differently in the past and future.
🔗 bit.ly/4nHBZ
#HistSci #HistArt
Biomedical Visions is now available open access, have a look: www.hatjecantz.com/collections/...
Biomedical Visions
Wir leben heute in einem Zeitalter der biomedizinischen Visionen. Die Entzauberung des Körpers durch Visualisierungstechnologien scheint kein Ende zu nehmen, und das Versprechen von Gesundheit ist unw...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Biomedical Visions is now available open access, have a look: www.hatjecantz.com/collections/...
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@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social kicks off the discussion by reflecting on a conference he organized last year
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#autoreflexivity #eahmh #who #schizophrenia
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#autoreflexivity #eahmh #who #schizophrenia
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social kicks off the discussion by reflecting on a conference he organized last year
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/global...
#autoreflexivity #eahmh #who #schizophrenia
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/global...
#autoreflexivity #eahmh #who #schizophrenia
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Do you love socio-material approaches to reproductive history? Come check out the special issue of Bulletin of the History of Medicine I’m in. My paper is on the history of centimeters as a unit for measuring cervical dilation.
Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
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July 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It was super interesting to hear from Nic Cottone, @alfredfreeborn.bsky.social and Lisa Schmidt-Herzog about their ideas of alienation, masking, and the need for an open epistemology to avoid essentialism in the neurodiversity movement!
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Our Spring Publications Slam in pictures 🌷📚
Congrats on your new books and articles Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer and Dora Vargha!
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Congrats on your new books and articles Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer and Dora Vargha!
Learn more 👉 bitly.cx/n7aF
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April 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Our Spring Publications Slam in pictures 🌷📚
Congrats on your new books and articles Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer and Dora Vargha!
Learn more 👉 bitly.cx/n7aF
#HistSci #EnvHist
Congrats on your new books and articles Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer and Dora Vargha!
Learn more 👉 bitly.cx/n7aF
#HistSci #EnvHist
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I’m hiring a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years to work on the philosophy of physics at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich (deadline: February 23, 2025). More information below. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)
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January 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I’m hiring a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years to work on the philosophy of physics at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich (deadline: February 23, 2025). More information below. @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social
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Call for applications!
Dept. II ("Knowledge Systems and Collective Life") seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar proficient in #OralHistory and #DigitalHumanities to join the CORAL (Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge) project 💬
🗓 Deadline: April 30, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#HistSci #AcademicSky
Dept. II ("Knowledge Systems and Collective Life") seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar proficient in #OralHistory and #DigitalHumanities to join the CORAL (Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge) project 💬
🗓 Deadline: April 30, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#HistSci #AcademicSky
March 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Call for applications!
Dept. II ("Knowledge Systems and Collective Life") seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar proficient in #OralHistory and #DigitalHumanities to join the CORAL (Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge) project 💬
🗓 Deadline: April 30, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#HistSci #AcademicSky
Dept. II ("Knowledge Systems and Collective Life") seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Scholar proficient in #OralHistory and #DigitalHumanities to join the CORAL (Commoning Oral Histories of Knowledge) project 💬
🗓 Deadline: April 30, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4eDRUq4
#HistSci #AcademicSky
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Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
How? Riah just joined the platform, turns out she's already famous. For any Berlin people, I would recommend her new show at the Gorki, it's a lot of really camp fun and, unlike the critics, I loved the didactic anti-racism.
“We don’t have to live by this normative structure”: How Riah Knight is deconstructing Carmen
Romani actress Riah Knight reinterprets Georges Bizet's 'Carmen', challenging the opera's harmful stereotypes and reclaiming the narrative.
Romani actress Riah Knight reinterprets Georges Bizet's 'Carmen', challenging the opera's harmful stereotypes and reclaiming the narrative.
Riah Knight is deconstructing Carmen
Romani actress Riah Knight reinterprets Georges Bizet's 'Carmen', challenging the opera's harmful stereotypes and reclaiming the narrative.
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January 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
How? Riah just joined the platform, turns out she's already famous. For any Berlin people, I would recommend her new show at the Gorki, it's a lot of really camp fun and, unlike the critics, I loved the didactic anti-racism.
It's been a while since I did a social media post, got that mildly excited feeling and skin tingles. Happy to share my first (single-authored) publication with the BlueSky world! It won a prize so definitely skim-read the abstract at least: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia: Crisis, consensus, and computers in post-war psychiatry - Alfred Freeborn, 2025
This article offers a new reading of the US–UK Diagnostic Project (1965–75), a series of influential collaborative studies that tested the ability of psychiatri...
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January 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It's been a while since I did a social media post, got that mildly excited feeling and skin tingles. Happy to share my first (single-authored) publication with the BlueSky world! It won a prize so definitely skim-read the abstract at least: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Berlin: a double portrait
October 17, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Berlin: a double portrait
First autumnal swim at Flughafensee on the weekend.
October 16, 2023 at 12:07 PM
First autumnal swim at Flughafensee on the weekend.