Tatjana Buklijas

Research fellow
MD (University of Zagreb), MPhil, PhD (University of Cambridge)

Contact details

Email: t.buklijas@auckland.ac.nz

Key research interests

• History of science and medicine.
• Evolutionary medicine.
• Developmental origins of health and disease.
   

I was trained as a physician in my hometown of Zagreb, Croatia, but then changed career to first study (M.Phil. and PhD) and then work, as a Wellcome Research Fellow, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. In 2008 I moved to New Zealand and took up a research fellowship at the Liggins Institute. I work in the Centre for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Disease on projects related to evolutionary medicine and developmental origins of health and disease, especially from the perspective of the history and philosophy of evolution and development. I am also continuing my earlier research interests in the history of embryology and morphology (human and comparative anatomy).

Affiliated research scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/buklijas.html

Visiting lecturer in history of medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
 

Lecturer, Population History PhD programme, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
www.unidu.hr/pdf/POPULATION_HISTORY.pdf

I teach a course titled ‘Concepts of disease’ in the Medical Humanities programme of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland.

1. Gluckman, Peter D., Mark A. Hanson, Tatjana Buklijaš (2009). ‘A conceptual framework for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 1: 6-18
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2. Buklijaš, Tatjana and Nick Hopwood. (2008). Exhibition Making visible embryos, University of Cambridge.
www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos
 

3. Buklijaš, Tatjana (2008). ‘Cultures of death and politics of corpse supply: anatomy in Vienna, 1848-1914’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82: 570–607.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633446
 

4. Buklijaš, Tatjana and Emese Lafferton (2007). ‘Science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38: 679–86.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585868

Wellcome Research Fellowship, 2005-2008