History of the Human Sciences
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We are keen to encourage paper/special submissions to History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social — particularly on topics our journal less frequently addresses. Please get in touch w @sarahvmarks.bsky.social or me; we are happy to discuss in person at Edinburgh conf or afterwards #eshs-hss
Please read and share and enjoy and discuss and cherish my long-gestating article in @histhum.bsky.social: ‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain doi.org/10.1177/0952...
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“The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes”, by our editor Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social, was published today. Entirely OA www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Chris Millard@chrismillard83.bsky.social · 5mo agoOh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate
History of the Human Sciences@histhum.bsky.social · 6mo ago❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate www.histhum.com/applications...
❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate www.histhum.com/applications...
Applications open for new editor for HHS online blog (histhum.com) and social media
The editors of international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal History of the Human Sciences (HHS) invite applications for a new editor of its online blog histhum.com. …
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30 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *
Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences
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30 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *
Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences
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Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève et Patrick Ffrench publient dans "History of the Human Sciences" un article présentant une analyse historique comparative du développement des humanités médicales aux États-Unis et en France. colhum.hypotheses.org/2099
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history
Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève et Patrick Ffrench publient dans History of the Human Sciences un article présentant une analyse historique comparative du développement des humanités médicales aux États-U...
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John Forrester’s “If p, then what? Thinking in cases”, published in History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social in 1996 🧡 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Samuel Baudinette@sambaudinette.bsky.social · 7mo agoTwo articles that I think should be required reading for any candidate undertaking their didactic training at a psychoanalytic institute who wants to inquire into how psychoanalytic knowledge is produced and disseminated (especially in America):
Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles. Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Here’s our co-authored Intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain David W Jones and Craig Fees (OA) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain - David W. Jones, Craig Fees, 2025
This article explores the pioneering rehabilitative work of the Q Camps Committee's Hawkspur Camp (1936–1941), which supported young men deemed at risk of ...
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Hey that's us. "Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 Viola Balz Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025
Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext...
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How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 Viola Balz Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025
Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext...
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Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms (Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and a philosopher of care) Patrick ffrench and Céline Lefève journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025
In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off...
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025
In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off...
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Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms (Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and a philosopher of care) Patrick ffrench and Céline Lefève journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history: Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history - Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench, 2025
This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolv...
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On the relationship between psychical researchers and their mediums (later, parapsychologists and performing telepaths): 'Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know': Jaap Bos (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know - Jaap Bos, 2025
Research into psychical phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism in the 19th century was so much hampered by fraudulent mediumship that researchers and the ...
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On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett, 2025
Industrial location theory (ILT) attempted to grasp transformations in capitalist space, particularly the growth, transformation, and decline of industrial urba...
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This critique of the Critical Medical Humanities is part of a forthcoming special issue on the medical humanities (past, present and future) in @histhum.bsky.social
History of the Human Sciences@histhum.bsky.social · 10mo agoAn interrogation of “Critical Medical Humanities” by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed in ‘On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm
Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10mo agoHistory of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...
An interrogation of “Critical Medical Humanities” by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed in ‘On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice - Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, 2025
Should medical humanities lie in an instrumental relation to medicine, assisting healthcare practitioners to conduct their work in more humane ways? Or should i...
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History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...
Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences! Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been... Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social
Dr Hannah Blythe@hanblythe.bsky.social · last yr.A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article!
Carsten Timmermann@ctimmermann.bsky.social · 11mo agoI recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Jessica Dubow's review of Forrester/Cameron's Freud in Cambridge is part of article I'm trying to write. I love how she writes - as well as how she reads the institution of early 20C Cambridge Univ through the fantasy of the family romance @histhum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance? - Jessica Dubow, 2022
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