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Review of Maria Rentetzi, Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early Twentieth Century Vienna, Vienna’, Columbia University Press, 2008

The book follows the history of the Radium Institute (Institut für Radiumforschung) in Vienna from its establishment in 1910 until the political, personal, scientific and institutional upheavals of the 1930s and ‘40s. It is an equally innovative, stimulating, and carefully researched study that brings together urban transformation, politics, gender studies, a study of disciplinary material culture, and a history of a scientific discipline. Drawing on an extremely wide range of primary sources (located from Vienna to Miami and Mexico), the book shows how the experimental culture of radium research that developed in early twentieth-century Vienna crucially depended on the status of radium as both a commodity and a subject of scientific study in addition to close personal and institutional proximities within the Medizinerviertel as well as the gender politics of Red Vienna.

History of medicine; history of Radium

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