Publicity, politics, and professoriate in fin-de-siècle Vienna

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Major Austrian newspaper Der Standard has featured Dr Tatjana Buklijas’ recent essay on Viennese embryologist Samuel Leopold Schenk. (Google Translate)

Published in History of Science, Tatjana’s paper reviews Schenk’s work and how the prevailing political and social forces, together with the growing media, contributed to an excessively harsh punishment for his alleged misconduct.

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