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Max Stadler received a Ph.D. in the history of science, technology and medicine from CHoSTM, Imperial College, London in 2010. He also holds a MSc in the history of science, technology and medicine and a BSc in cognitive science. His current project "Users. Machine-minding and the history of perception, 1930s-1980s" concerns a history of perception through the eyes of soldiers, factory-workers, and office-clerks: of the ways visual perception in the 20th century was shaped, enhanced and mediated by machines, in sites such as factories, office-spaces and zones of war, and by disciplines such as ergonomics, military psychology and industrial physiology.  Prior to coming to ETH, he was a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (2009-2010) and an associate researcher at the Volkswagenstiftungs-project "critical neuroscience", where he continued to pursue his doctoral research interests in the history of the nervous system in the 20th century. The two workshops he co-organized, "Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries" (MPIWG Berlin, October 2010) and  "Neuro-Reality Check"  (MPIWG Berlin, December 2011), were/are by-products of this work; a book manuscript on the (material) history of the nervous impulse is also in preparation. 

Edited volumes

with Mathias Grote. (Ed.). 2011. Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries. Interstices in the History of Science, technology and culture.. Berlin: Preprints des Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (420).
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Articles

2013. Scanners Darkly: vision at low illumination, 1930-1960. In: in preparation / forthcoming : .

2013. Neurohistory for historians of science: The not-so-deep history of the post-classical mind. In: Isis Focus Section 'Neurohistory', forthcoming: 2013.

with (with Mathias Grote). 2013. Surfaces, Membranes, Boundaries: Introduction. In: Science in Context Special Issue: Membranes, forthcoming: 2013.

2012. "The Neurological Patient in History. A Commentary". In: The Neurological Patient in History. ed. Jacyna, L.S. and Casper, S. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 223-230.
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2011. Biophysikalisches Doppelleben, 1939–1946. Oder: Räume der Lange-weile. Zur (Nicht-) Zäsur des "Informationsdiskurses". In: Berichte zur WissenschaftsgeschichteVolume 34, 1: 27-63.
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2011. "Cell". In: Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert : hommage à, zu Ehren von, in honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. ed. Azzouni, Safia; Brandt, Christina; Gausemeier, Bernd; Kursell, Julia; Schmidgen, Henning; Wittmann, Barbara. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 217-219.

2011. "The Neuromance of Cerebral History". In: Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience. ed. Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 135-158.
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Reviews

2012. "A Tenth of a Second: A History". Review: Jimena Canales, A Tenth of a Second: A History, 2011. In: Aestimatio 9, 374-381.
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2011. Review: Heiner Fangerau, Spinning the Scientific Web: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) und sein Programm einer internationalen biomedizinischen Grundlagenforschung, Berlin 2010. In: The British Journal for the History of Science 44, 1, 141-143.
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2011. "Book Review: Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950". Review: Laura Salisbury and Andrew Shail (eds), Neurology and Modernity: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950, 2011. In: Social History of Medicine .
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2010. "Book Review: The Cybernetic Brain". Review: Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain. Sketches of Another Future, Chicago 2010. In: The Neuro Times .
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2010. "Pop-cybernetics". Review: Philipp Aumann, Mode und Methode: Die Kybernetik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Göttingen 2009. In: The Neuro Times .
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