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2018, No. (11), Cultural History of Knowledge

Bożena Płonka-Syroka
Anthropology of knowledge as a new perspective for history of medicine research

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Keywords: anthropology of knowledge, historiography of medicine

Abstract:
Anthropology of knowledge is based on German historiography school standard which takes under consideration social and cultural context in medicine sciences - Kulturgeschichte der Medizin and Sozialgeschichte der Medizin. The source of these inspirations were concepts of P. Fuhem, T.S. Kuhn, S. Amsterdamski, B. Skarga and W. Wrzosek. The main purpose of the paper is to show the basic concepts of research practice of anthropology of knowledge and the examples of application of its methods in the area of specific topics. The paper shows also my publications describing various thematic areas and collective studies edited (and co-edited) by Department of Human Sciences of Faculty of Pharmacy at Medical University in Wrocław employees in which collaborated a few hundreds of authors from various Universities in Poland.

About Author:
BOŻENA PŁONKA-SYROKA - historian of medicine, professor in Faculty of Pharmacy at Wrocław Medical University. E-mail: bozena.plonka-syroka@umed.wroc.pl. ORCID: 0000-0001-8743-4634.
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