Formerly Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine at McGill, Cornelius Borck is Professor of the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine and Science, and director of the Institute for the History of Science and Medicine, at the University of Lübeck.

Recent developments in biomedicine are moving us to problematize our accepted ideas about human nature. The harvest from current research projects is certainly impressive, not because they bring the investigation of human nature to a close, but because they have opened new possibilities and ambiguities, providing us with the means to redefine the puzzles we need to solve. Cornelius Borck’s extensive work in the history of the neurosciences has focused on how representations of brain functions, and of the biological underpinnings of the self, have emerged via the interplay of visualization techniques, discursive strategies, and research practices. His current research investigates the way that biomedicine interacts with and contributes to prevailing cultural constructions of body, mind, and self.

Cornelius Borck is the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine and is an Associate Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Art History and Communications and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Professor Borck has worked at the Institute for Science Studies of the University of Bielefeld and the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has also directed a research group at the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University, Weimar. Professor Borck earned an M.A. in Philosophy and an M.D. from the Free University of Berlin, and a Ph.D in Neurosciences from the Imperial College, University of London. He completed his Habilitation in the History of Science and Medicine at Charité Berlin.