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Research
Latest papers
Masking harm: dust, diseases, and industry.
Lancet (London, England) · 2025 · senior author
Historical perspectives on xenotransplantation.
Lancet (London, England) · 2022 · first author
Facts and values in the history of spina bifida.
Lancet (London, England) · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $20,497
Technology and the Patient Consumer: Understanding Medical Choice and Care, 1900-2020
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $413,101
Medical Innovation and the Patient Consumer: Explaining the Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery
CIHR · 2018 · Nominated PI
- $259,330
Disrupting Surgical Practice: The Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery, 1980-2000
CIHR · 2013 · Nominated PI
21 publications.
Masking harm: dust, diseases, and industry.
Strasser BJ, Schlich T
Historical perspectives on xenotransplantation.
Schlich T, Lutters B
Facts and values in the history of spina bifida.
Lutters B, Schlich T
A history of the medical mask and the rise of throwaway culture.
Strasser BJ, Schlich T
The Knick and Die Charité: Historical Hospital Series and the History of Medicine.
Schlich T
The history of anaesthesia and the patient-reduced to a body?
Schlich T
Surgical Innovation and the Multiple Meanings of Randomized Controlled Trials: The First RCT on Minimally Invasive Cholecystectomy (1980-2000).
Tang CL, Schlich T
Why were surgical gloves not used earlier?
Schlich T
Why did Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig not receive the nobel prize?
Hansson N, Schlich T
Negotiating technologies in surgery: the controversy about surgical gloves in the 1890s.
Schlich T
Technology and the Patient Consumer: Understanding Medical Choice and Care, 1900-2020
Principal investigators: Schlich, Thomas
Keywords: history; consumer; patient; technology; innovation; medicine
Medical Innovation and the Patient Consumer: Explaining the Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Principal investigators: Schlich, Thomas
Keywords: History Of Surgery; History Of Technical Innovation In Medicine; Patient History
Disrupting Surgical Practice: The Rise of Minimally Invasive Surgery, 1980-2000
Principal investigators: Schlich, Thomas
Keywords: History Of Surgery; History Of Technology
Surgical practice and scientific knowledge: the origins and impact of aseptic surgery in Europe and North America (1870s-1920s)
Principal investigators: Schlich, Thomas A.
Keywords: history of surgery; history of science; history of technology
The institutions of objectivity in medicine: Informal and formal modalities of regulation
Principal investigators: Schlich, Thomas A.
Keywords: objectivity; regulation; medicine; standardization
Patients, models and therapeutic agents: investigating animal-human relationships in Western health care
Principal investigators: Rock, Melanie J.
Keywords: science & technology studies; human-animal studies; anthropology; sociology; history
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Social Studies of Medicine
- Social Studies and Medicine
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