Dr Jens Lachmund (J.D.)

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Lachmund, J. D. (2013). Greening Berlin. The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature. MIT Press.
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de Bont, R., & Lachmund, J. (Eds.) (2017). Spatializing the History of Ecology: Sites, Journeys, Mappings. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Studies in the History of Science Technology and Medicine https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315191041
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Dierig, S., Lachmund, J. D., & Mendelsohn, E. (2003). Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science: In: Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund and Andrew Mendelsohn (eds.) Science and the City. Osiris, 18, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1086/649374
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Lachmund, J. (2022). Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin. Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space, 40(6), 1290-1306. Article 23996544211070204. https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211070204
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Lachmund, J. (2019). Regimes of Urban Nature: Organic Urbanism, Biotope Protection, and Civic Gardening in Berlin. In S. Sörlin, & H. Ernston (Eds.), Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and futures of urban ecologies (pp. 247-276). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11600.003.0014
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Lachmund, J. (2020). The metabolic city and the city of biotopes: Paul Duvigneaud and Herbert Sukopp. In M. Gandy, & S. Jasper (Eds.), The Botanical City (pp. 22-29). Jovis.
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Lachmund, J. D. (2004). Mapping Urban Nature. Bio-ecological Surveys of German Cities. In E. Kurtz, & G. Gigerenzer (Eds.), Experts in Science and Society (pp. 231-248). Plenum/Kluwer.
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Lachmund, J., & Stollberg, G. (1995). Patientenwelten: Krankheit und Medizin vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert im Spiegel von Autobiographien. Leske und Budrich. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-99735-7
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Lachmund, J. (1997). Der abgehorchte Körper: Zur Historischen Soziologie der medizinischen Untersuchung. Westdeutscher Verlag.
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Other publications

 

Monographs

 

Greening Berlin. The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2013).

 

Der abgehorchte Körper. Zur Historischen Soziologie der medizinischen Untersuchung. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1997).

 

(co-authored with G. Stollberg) Patientenwelten. Krankheit und Medizin in Autobiographien vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Opladen: Leske + Budrich (1995).

 

(co-authored with K. Amann, S. Hirschauer, H. Kranz, W. Phillipps, P. Weingart) Kommerzialisierung der Grundlagenforschung. Das Beispiel Biotechnologie. Bielefeld: Kleine (Science Studies Report 28) (1986).

 

 

Edited Volumes

Bert de Munck & Jens Lachmund (eds): Politics of Urban Knowledge. Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities (London/New York: Routledge, 2023).

Raf De Bont & Jens Lachmund (eds.) Spatializing the History of Ecology. Sites, Journeys, Mappings (London/New York: Routledge, 2017).

 

(co-edited with Sven Dierig and Andrew Mendelsohn) Science and the City, OSIRIS Volume 18, 2003.

 

(co-edited with G. Stollberg) The Social Construction of Illness. Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present. Stuttgart: Steiner (1992).

 

 

Articles and Book Chapters

"Knowledge-Making and the Quest for a Sustainable City: Promoting Community Food-Growing in London. In: Bert de Munck & Jens Lachmund (eds): Politics of Urban Knowledge. Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities, pp. 229-252 (London/New York: Routledge, 2023).

"Introduction. Urban Knowledge and the Governing of Cities". Politics of Urban Knowledge. Historical Perspectives on the Shaping and Governing of Cities, pp. 1-26 (London/New York: Routledge, 2023).(co-authored with Bert de Munck).

"Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin" Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2022. DOI: 10.1177/23996544211070204

“The metabolic city and the city of biotopes: Jean Paul Duvigneaud vs. Herbert Sukopp.”

In: Matthey Gandy & Sandra Jasper (eds.) The Botanical City. Berlin: Jovis (2020).

 

“Regimes of Urban Nature. Organic Urbanism, Biodiversity Protection and Civic Gardening in Berlin.” In Henrik Ernstson & Sverker Sörlin (eds), Grounding Urban Nature. Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies, pp. 247-277 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019)

 

“Stethoskop.” In Daniel Morat & Hansjacob Ziemer (eds.), Handbuch Sound. Geschichte – Begriffe – Ansätze, pp. 364-366. (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2018).

 

“Biodiversity.” In Harro v. Lente, Tsjalling Swierstra, Sally Wyatt & Ragna Zeiss (eds.), Wegwijs in STS – Knowing your way in STS (pp. 89-93). (Maastricht University 2017)

 

“Introduction: Knowing Nature, Making Space.” In Raf De Bont & Jens Lachmund (eds.) Spatializing the History of Ecology. Sites, Journeys, Mappings (London/New York: Routledge, 2017). (co-authored with Raf de Bont)

 

“The City as Ecosystem: Paul Duvigneaud and the Ecological Study of Brussels.” In Raf De Bont & Jens Lachmund (eds.) Spatializing the History of Ecology. Sites, Journeys, Mappings (London/New York: Routledge, 2017).

 

“Epilogue: Knowing Nature, Making Space.” In Raf De Bont & Jens Lachmund (eds.) Spatializing the History of Ecology. Sites, Journeys, Mappings (London/New York: Routledge, 2017). (co-authored with Raf de Bont)

 

“Ruderale Räume. Ökologie, Politik und die Natur in der Stadt.“ In Herbert Kalthoff, Thorsten Cress & Tobias Röhl (eds.): Materialität. Herausforderungen für die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften. (München: Wilhelm Fink, 2015)

 

“Strange Birds. Ornithology and the Advent of the Collared Dove in Post WWII Germany. Science in Context 28, 2015, 2: 259-284.

 

“Wiebe Bijker and Trevor Pinch. Der sozialkonstruktivistische Ansatz in der Technikforschung”. In: Matthias Wieser & Diana Lengersdorf (ed.): Schlüsselwerke der Science and Technology Studies (Opladen: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2014).

 

 “Introduction. Toward a Cultural Analysis of Product Labelling”. In Buying healthy, righteously and environmentally friendly: Results of the Maastricht Research Based Learning (MARBLE) Project on Product Labelling. (Series Marble, Maastricht University, 2011).

 

“The Invention of the Ruderal Area. Urban Ecology and the Struggle for Wasteland Protection in West-Berlin”. Paper presented at the International Sociological Association RC21-conference in Berlin, September 2013, 29-31. Conference web-publications: http://www.rc21.org/conferences/berlin2013/RC21-Berlin-Papers-2/23-Lachmund.pdf

 

“The Making of an Urban Ecology: Biological Expertise and Wildlife Protection in West Berlin”. In Dorothee Brantz & Sonja Dümpelmann (eds.) Greening the City. Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 2011). 

 

"Türkentaube." In: Abteilung III des MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin (ed.), Eine Naturgeschichte für das 21. Jahrhundert. Hommage à/zu Ehren von/in honor of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin, 2011)

 

“Das Geräusch in der Medizin. Zu den historischen Grundlagen der modernen Diagnostik”, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 2009:121: 491-500.

 

“Ecology in a Walled City: Researching Urban Wildlife in Post-War Berlin”. Endeavour, 31, 2, 2007: 78-82. 

 

“Mapping as a Cultural Practice”. In Jean Paul Gaudillière & Hans-Joerg Rheinberger (eds.), Mapping the Human Genome. (London: Routledge, 2004).

 

“Knowing the Urban Wasteland. Ecological Expertise as Local Process”. In Sheila Jasanoff & Marybeth Long Martello (eds.), Earthly Politics. (Cambridge, M.A. , MIT-Press, 2004)

 

"Mapping Urban Nature. Bio-Ecological Surveys and Urban Planning in Germany, 1975-1998". In Gerd Gigerenzer & Elke Kurtz (eds.), The Expert in Modern Society. Amsterdam: Plenum (2004).

 

(with Sven Dierig and A. Mendelsohn) “Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science”. In Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund & Andrew Mendelsohn (eds.) Science and the City, OSIRIS Volume 18, 2003: 1-19. 

 

“Exploring the City of Rubble. Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II”. In Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund & Andrew Mendelsohn (eds.) Science and the City, OSIRIS Volume 18, 2003.

(Reprinted in In Ian Douglas (Ed.), Urban Ecology. (Critical Concepts in Geography). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017).

 

"Die registrierte Natur. Zur Konstruktion von Expertenwissen bei oekologischen Bestandsaufnahmen". Soziale Welt, 53, 2002, 2: 209-236..

 

"Die kartographische Organisation biologischen Wissens. Eine Fallstudie zur Geschichte stadtökologischer Kartierungen von Berlin (West). In David Gugerli/Barbara Orland (eds.): Ganz normale Bilder. Zur visuellen Produktion von Selbstverständlichkeit. (Zürich: Chronos, 2002.

 

"Making Sense of Sound. Auscultation and Lung-Sound Codification in Nineteenth-Century French and German Medicine" in Science, Technology and Human Values 24,4 (1999): 419-450.

 

"Between Scrutiny and Treatment. Physical Diagnosis and the Restructuring of 19th Century Medical Practice." Sociology of Health and Illness 20, 6 (1998): 779-801.

 

"Die kulturelle Genese ärztlicher Deutungskompetenz. Physikalische Diagnose und Arzt-Patient-Verhältnis im 19. Jahrhundert." Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie 3/4 (1997): 167-174.

 

"Meßpraktiken in Lungenheilanstalten. Dimensionen medizinischer Wirklichkeitskonstruktion. Kommentar zu Michael Martin." In Volker Hess (ed.) Normierung von Gesundheit. Messende Verfahren als kulturelle Praktik in der Medizin um 1900 (Husum: Matthiesen, 1997): 165-168.

 

(with G. Stollberg) "Die Hospitalisierung des Patienten." Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie 1 (1993): 36-42.

 

"Die Erfindung des ärztlichen Gehörs. Zur Historischen Soziologie der stethoskopischen Untersuchung." Zeitschrift für Soziologie 21, 4 (1992): 235-251.

(Reprinted in Cornelius Borck (ed.) Anatomien medizinischen Wissens. Medizin, Macht, Moleküle (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1996): 55-85.

 

(with G. Stollberg) "The Doctor, his Audience, and the Meaning of Illness. The Drama of Medical Practice in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries," in J. Lachmund/G. Stollberg (eds.) The Social Construction of Illness. Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992): 53-66.

 

(with G. Stollberg) "Introduction," in J. Lachmund/G. Stollberg (eds.) The Social Construction of Illness. Illness and Medical Knowledge in Past and Present (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992): 9-19.

 

(with G. Stollberg) "Ärzte und bildungsbürgerliche Patienten im 19. Jahrhundert." Curare 14 (1992): 91-96.

 

(with G. Stollberg) "Zur medikalen Kultur des Bildungsbürgertums um 1800. Eine soziologische Analyse anhand von Autobiographien." Jahrbuch des Instituts für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung 6 (1989): 163-184.

 

"Die Profession, der Patient und das medizinische Wissen. Von der kurativen Medizin zur Risikoprävention". Zeitschrift für Soziologie 16, 5 (1987): 353-366.

 

 

Reviews/Other

Lachmund, J. (2022) Gutes Grün für gute Städte? Rezension zu „How Green Became Good. Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens” von Hillary Angelo. In: Soziopolis 22 April 2022. https://www.soziopolis.de/gutes-gruen-fuer-gute-staedte.html

Lachmund, J. (2017) Review of O. Hochadel & Auguto Nieto-Galan (eds.) Barcelona. An Urban History of Science. London: Routledge. In: ISIS, 108(4), 938-939.

 

Lachmund, J. (2009). Review of T. Misa & M. Hård Urban Machinery. Inside Modern Cities (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008). In: ISIS.

 

Lachmund, J. (2007). Review of M. Heßler, Die kreative Stadt. Zur Neuerfindung eines Topos. Bielefeld: transcript] (2007). In: NTM – Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 2008/4, 518-520.

 

Report on the workshop "Science and the City". In Naturwissenschaft, Technik, Medizin (in press)

 

Review of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger/Michael Hagner/Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt, "Räume des Wissens. Repräsentation, Codierung, Spur" (1997), in Mittelweg 36 1 (1997): 55-56.

 

Report on the workshop "Examining, Categorizing, Predicting. Medical Diagnosis and the Making of Medical Knowledge." (1997), in Mittelweg 36 1 (1997): 52-55.

 

Review of Bruno Latour, "Wir sind nie modern gewesen. Versuch einer symmetrischen Anthropologie" (1995). Mittelweg 36 5 (1996): 64-66.