Forced Migration as Public Relations Process? Lothar B. Kalinowsky and the Trans-Atlantic Transfer of Electroconvulsive Therapy.
Research in biological psychiatry during the first half of the 20thcentury was based upon a wide range of interrelated disciplines, including neurology, neuroanatomy, neuropathology, and experimental biology. The work of German-American psychiatrist and neurologist Lothar B. Kalinowsky (1899-1992) is taken here as an example of how such fields could be combined to produce a highly innovative and multidimensional research program in clinical neuroscience. Kalinowsky functioned exceptionally well in both scientific and clinical cultures despite the marked contextual differences between the Charité in Berlin and his later workplace in New York's Columbia Medical School. The innovative ideas exemplified by Kalinowsky's efforts, however, sometimes amounted to a dubious advantage for émigré clinical neuroscientists: they easily led to incommensurable scientific views, and sometimes even resulted in the marginalization of the innovator from existing research programs.
Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of History, University of Calgary.
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Central Europe and North America; Lothar B. Kalinowsky; biological psychiatry; clinical neurology; immigration and biomedical research; immigration et recherche biomédicale; neurologie clinique; pays germanophones et Amérique du Nord; psychiatrie biologique; relations transatlantiques; trans-Atlantic relations