A new article published by Natacha Klein Käfer, Emma Klakk, and Mette Birkedal Bruun came out in the journal Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies. “Ethics of Interdisciplinary Research Across Multiple Ranges of Proximity” explores how proximity affects interdisciplinary efforts, and how the principles of the ethics of care can ensure the success of projects involving members, institutions, and academic cultures across different ranges of proximity. The article is part of the Special Issue edited by Machiel Keestra and Jan Cornelius Schmidt and will become open access after a one-year period of embargo.
Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900
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The Research Environment Secrets to Patents investigates the long-term history of how life-saving and health-improving medicines became for-profit commodities from 1500 to 1900. Focusing on the Atlantic Colonial Nexus, the project’s team will investigate the strategies that different historical agents used to claim ownership of medicinal knowledge.
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Secrets to Patents has been generously funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2030) and hosted at Lund University (SE), in collaboration with the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen (DK) and the History Department of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (BR).
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