Gabriela Mani
IPNA - University of Basel and Anthropology Freiburg i.Br.
Dissertation (2014-2018): Dental cementum analysis: a critical review of the method and its potential to detect pregnancy and disease. Pdf.
Alexandros Fatios Karakostis
University of Tübingen, Paleoanthropology and IPNA - University of Basel
Dissertation (2016-2018): Three-Dimensional and Mircrocomputed Tomography Ananlysis of Morphometric Variation in the Hand Entheses of modern Humans, Chimpanzees, and Hominins. Pdf.
Sabine Reimund
Anthropology Freiburg i.Br. and IPNA - University of Basel
Dissertation (2015-2017): Tuberculosis in the urban environment-Basel 1843-1868 versus Cape Town today.
Maja Sabadoš
Department of History and IPNA - University of Basel
The history of caesarean section delivery in Basel in the 19th century.
Final theses in preparation
Nina Kneiphof
Anthropology University of Freiburg i.Br. and IPNA - University of Basel
Dissertation (2015-2016): Cancer cases in the Basel Bürgerspital (1843-1868). An epidemiological analysis with special consideration of mastectomy. (working title)
Completed theses (in chronological order)
Fabienne Klumpf
Department of History and IPNA - University of Basel
Master's thesis (2015-2016): Analysis of medical treatment of female patients based on their medical histories at the Bürgerspital Basel in the 19th century (study period from 1843 to 1868): "Married or single - did treatment depend on it?"
Noemi Bönzli
Department of History and IPNA - University of Basel
Master's thesis (2015-2016): Pregnant women, women in childbirth and women who have recently given birth in Basel's Bürgerspital 1863-1893. pdf
Semira Ryser
IPNA - University of Basel and Anthropology Freiburg i.Br.
Bachelor's thesis (2016): "Stressful" CVs of the 19th century. Methodical investigations of the stress markers of three skeletons from the St. Johann hospital cemetery.
Maria Kumpf
Anthropology Freiburg i.Br. and IPNA - University of Basel
Master's thesis (2016): Health and disease in a historical urban population. Epidemiological studies on patient data from the Bürgerspital and hospital cemetery in Basel in the 19th century. 108 pages. Pdf.
Michal Pavel
Department of History and IPNA - University of Basel
Master's thesis (2016): The medical histories of the Bürgerspital Basel a mirror of the times? A quantitative social-historical study from 1843 to 1868. 86 pages. Request Pdf.
Pierre Ingold
IPNA - University of Basel and Anthropology Freiburg i.Br.
Bachelor's thesis (2015): Giving life and death a face. Facial reconstructions of two burials from the St. Johann hospital cemetery in Basel. 77 pages. Pdf.
Noemi Bönzli
Department of History and IPNA - University of Basel
Bachelor's thesis (2014): "Gestern machte der Todt den Schmerzen Ende" - Schmerzerfahrungen im 19. Jahrhundert in Akten krebskranker Patienten des Basler Bürgerspitals 1840-1865. 57 pages. Pdf bachelor's thesis, Pdf journal article.
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