Erna Lesky, general and diplomat.: Networking as a power tool for the history of medicine

• Autores: Felicitas Seebacher
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 208-216
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Erna Lesky was the first female professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. She was able to use perfectly the mainly male occupied behaviour patterns and power tools to her advantage on the way to the head of the Institute for the History of Medicine. Lesky knew how to demonstrate authority and power and how to gain allies. Diplomatically built up networks and an enormous determination for performance had stamped her career success. With publications focusing on the Vienna Medical School, Lesky marked the Austrian way of writing the history of medicine. Her methods, focusing on medical efforts, became standard, allowing no other modern, interdisciplinary access. This paper is a differentiated presentation of the career of a female physician and historian of medicine who broke with the traditional role model and perceptions of women in medicine.