Threatened but stable medical systems of knowledge. Ebola in West Africa and endangered orders of medicine (2013 - 2016) (G05)

• Subject Area: History of Science
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 170320015

After dealing with AIDS (1st funding period) and antibiotic resistances (2nd funding period), Project G05 will use the third period of funding to investigate the Ebola epidemic from 2013-2016, an episode that represented a much more dramatic and more contemporary threat to medical order, particularly with regards to threat communication and time constraints. On the basis of a comparative threat analysis, the project will develop parameters for stability and change in the medical order in the 20th and 21st centuries.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 923: Threatened Orders
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Privatdozent Dr. Henning Tümmers, since 1/2019; Professor Dr. Urban Wiesing, since 1/2019