Affiliated Research Scholars
Emese Lafferton
Lecturer in History and Sociology of Medicine, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh
Research interests: Social history of C19 and C20 science and medicine; medical sociology; history of psychiatry, anthropology, ethnography and eugenics
Selected English publications
- 'The Magyar moustache: the faces of Hungarian state formation, 1867-1918'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (2007): 706-32.
- (Co-authored with T. Buklijas) 'Science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (2007): 679-86.
- 'Murder by Hypnosis? Altered States and the Mental Geography of Science', in Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Memory of Roy Porter. Ed. by John Pickstone and Roberta Bivins. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- 'What the Files Reveal. The Social Make-Up of Public Mental Asylums in Hungary, 1860s-1910s', in 'Moderne' Anstaltspsychiatrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert – Legitimation und Kritik (Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte – Beiheft 26). Ed. by Heiner Fangerau and Karen Nolte, 83-103. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.
- 'From Private Asylum to University Clinic: Hungarian Psychiatry, 1850-1908'. In Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History, ed. George S. Rousseau, et al. 190-213. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- 'Hypnosis and Hysteria as Ongoing Processes of Negotiation. Ilma's Case from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy'. History of Psychiatry 3 (2002) 177-197; 4 (2002) 305-327.
- Central European Hysteria. Ed. by Miklós Hadas, Katalin Kovács, and Emese Lafferton. Budapest: Replika Kör, 1998.
A number of articles, translations and edited books in Hungarian.