Dr. Bernhard Leitner , BA MA
Bernhard Leitner
Department of East Asian Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

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Leitner, B. (Accepted/In press). A Nobleman of Neurology meets a Father of Psychiatry: Viennese Neurological Networks in the Making of Psychiatric Elites in Japan. In A. Kobiljski, & N. Fieve (Eds.), Professional Elites of Modern Japan - Translators, Doctors, Engineers, and Architects (1 ed.). College de France.


Leitner, B. (2018). Psychiatrie und Neurologie zwischen Wien und Tokyo: Zur Rolle eines transnationalen Netzwerkes in der Entwicklung der akademischen Medizin in Japan circa 1900. In Strukturen und Netzwerke – Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848-1955 (1 ed., Vol. 650 Jahre Universität Wien - Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert - Band 5, pp. 533-554). V&R unipress, Vienna University Press. 650 Jahre Universität Wien - Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert Vol. 5 https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737009164.533






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Gauging brains - Academic bias and circulation of neuroanatomical knowledge between Habsburg Austria and Japan circa 1900

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

27 Aug 2021

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The Dissemination of Critical Brains – Comparative Anatomy between Habsburg Austria and the Japanese Empire in the early 20th Century

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

17 Apr 2021

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Meiji Brains: On Circulation and Exclusion of Neurological Knowledge between Vienna and Tokyo

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

10 Oct 2019

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The Search/Surge of the Insane – The Legal Confinement of Mentally Ill and Emerging Psychiatric Discourse in Early 20th Century Japan

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

2 Jun 2019

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Tacit Nerves: Neuroscientific knowledge production in the Habsburg and Japanese Empires

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

28 May 2019

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Neuro-Empire: Rise of a Medical-Scientific Discipline in Modern Japan

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

9 Nov 2017

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A Question of Nerves – Psychiatry and Neurology between Tokyo and Vienna circa 1900

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

24 Feb 2017

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Science, scientists or nations? Reflections on (a) medical knowledge transfer in modern Japan

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

22 Apr 2016

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Laboratorium Wien-Tokyo – Zur Emergenz eines psychiatrischen Denkstils in Österreich und Japan um 1900

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

26 Aug 2015

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Matter Over Mind – On Neurological Psychiatry and the Absence of Freud in Japanese Medical Academia

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

6 Jul 2015

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Laboratory Vienna-Tokyo – On the emergence of a psychiatric thought-style in Austria and Japan

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

28 Mar 2015

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The World View of Japanese Psychiatry

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

30 Aug 2014

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Of Wandering Spirits and Morbid Brains – Placing Mind and Body in the Age of Psychiatry

Bernhard Leitner (Speaker)

21 Mar 2014

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Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

bernhard.leitner@univie.ac.at
https://unive.academia.edu/BernhardLeitner