Alfred Freeborn

Alfred Freeborn

@alfredfreeborn.bsky.social

Historian of Science and Medicine living in Berlin writing on Biomedicine and Psychosis. Lecturer at Bielefeld University, previously MPIWG, Humboldt, Cambridge.

165 Followers 230 Following 13 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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BlueSky ist doch ok? Stabi statt Snapchat? #BlueSky #Facebook #Stabi

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Football Delirium This book is a set of wonderfully subtle and free-wheeling interwoven stories about psychoanalysis and football, and what they might have to say to each other, arguing that football offers us the poss...

Looking for interesting reading on psychoanalysis and football (asking for a friend who's a Spurs fan). Just stumbled across Chris Oakley's Football Delirium (www.routledge.com/Football-Del...), but hungry for more. #psychoanalysis #football #spurs

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Biomedical Visions spotted in the wild (The Wellcome) by @frankiedytor.bsky.social! No time for irl books? Too busy on BlueSky for excursions to Euston Road? Treat yourself to the totally free open access version here: www.hatjecantz.de/products/830... #histmed #histsci

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We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections"

That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore

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Postdoctoral Research Associate Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

Interested in multispecies health? Why not come work with my excellent colleague Hannah Brown at Durham?

durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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I will be in discussion with Elizabeth Hughes, Robert Meunier, Cornelius Borck, Lara Keuck, Cat Dawson and Marlene Bart. All welcome, don't forget to register for in-person attendance or live stream!

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Biomedical Visions - ICI Berlin Biomedical visualisations can validate patient experiences and perceptions empowering patients and convincing doctors in the search for a diagnosis, treatment, or cure. However, they are often decepti...

"Biomedical technologies increasingly mediate and shape our subjective experience of illness, but biomedical knowledge cannot satisfy our subjective desires for total control of our bodies and their environments"

Book Launch 12.03. Live stream available www.ici-berlin.org/events/biome...

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2 weeks ago
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Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.

Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event!
@durhamimh.bsky.social
#histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts

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1 month ago
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Bielefelder Schneemann

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Buoy is cold. Plötzensee, Berlin.

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4 months ago
The image shows an X-ray of a skull against a black background. Inside the image of the skull is an image of an open hand, facing the viewer with slightly shaded palms. The word "You" outlines the skull and forms a border around the suggested eye sockets. To the left of the skull is written: "Edited by Elizabeth W. Hughes and Alfred Freeborn." In the centre of the lower part of the image is the name of the publisher, "HATJE CANTZ".

📗 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

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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...

Biomedical Visions is now available open access, have a look: www.hatjecantz.com/collections/...

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6 months ago

Not sure that was the point - rather that we should pause before historicizing everything. But thanks Benoît for covering the panel!

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6 months ago
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@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

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8 months ago

#HPS #HistMed

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8 months ago

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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10 months ago
Collage of photos of the presenting scholars behind the microphone stand. From the top left to the bottom right: Esther Chen, Thomas Turnbull, Razieh-Sadat Mousavi, Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Alfred Freeborn, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Cameron Brinitzer, and Dora Vargha. Source: Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025.

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

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1 year ago
Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)

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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"Max Planck History of Science—Career: We’re hiring!“ 
top right: MPIWG main building backyard. Picture by Setform 2017. 
bottom right: MPIWG library. Picture by Setform 2017.

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

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1 year ago
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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

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1 year ago

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.

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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...

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....

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2 years ago
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Berlin: a double portrait

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2 years ago
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First autumnal swim at Flughafensee on the weekend.

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