Gladys Kostyrka

Research Fellow

Biography

Gladys Kostyrka is a philosopher and historian of the biological and medical sciences. Her PhD research first focused on viruses, controversies about their nature, the definition and origin of life. As a postdoc at CBSS, she investigates challenges of transdisciplinarity in epidemiology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Specifically, she takes an anthropological approach Ebola epidemics from the 1970s until today. 

Research

• Transdisciplinarity in Epidemiology: biomedical, social and human sciences

• Anthropology and psychiatry

• Social, philosophical and historical studies of health and disease 

• Philosophy and history of the life sciences