Portrait of Copernicus
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Richard Keller

Associate Professor, Medical History & Bioethics and History of Science

Office: 1423 Med Sci Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1532 U.S.A.
Tel: 608-263-7378
608-262-1460 (Med. Hist. office)
Fax: 608-265-0486
Email: rckeller@wisc.edu
C.V.: Keller CV.pdf
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Special interests and recent research:

European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race.

Recent publications:

  • “Faut-il contrôler les aspects éthiques de la recherche en sciences sociales et comment ? ” Mouvements/55-56, (2008):128-41, with Carine Vassy.
  • "Colonial Madness" cover imageColonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
  • "Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires,1800-1962." Journal of Social History 35 (2001): 295-326.
  • "Pierre Janet and the Psychoanalytic Crisis in France, 1913-1915." Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 24 (1997): 168-177.

Courses taught:

  • 508: Health, Disease, and Healing II
  • 543: Doctors and Delusions: Madness and Medicine in the Modern Era
  • 553: International Health and Global Society
  • 919: Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Colonial Context
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