History of the Human Sciences

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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...

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...

The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain

Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva
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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...

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/...

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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...

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...

The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history:

Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench

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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 ...

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/...

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...

On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm

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...

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/...

Screenshot of post of the ECR Prize 2025-26: available here https://www.histhum.com/early-career-prize-2025-26-history-of-the-human-sciences/

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

Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article!

Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance? - Jessica Dubow, 2022

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...

Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025 Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...

Published this doi.org/10.1177/0952... at @histhum.bsky.social striving to fairly represent SSGAC’s apparent efforts to be ethical and progressive while pointing out contradictions. Feels like time wasted! How swiftly eugenics was unmasked under a ‘fair-wind’ far-right govt. The future looks grim.

Congratulations also to Heewon Kim who was awarded a commendation fro the article "Face in Codes: Trained Observers and Sensory Multipliers Across Competing Universes, 1952–1971"

This article will also appear in the journal & interviews with both scholars will appear on our site

Congratulations to Jonah Walters the winner of this year's ECR Prize!

The winning article "The Taser in the Skinner box: Science fiction, aversive conditioning, and the paradigm of electric shock policing" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal!

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Review: Roundhouse Levy, Martin. 2024. Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation. 1st edit. Hannover; Stuttgart: ibidem. Janina Klement (UCL) With Roundhouse, Martin Levy offers the …

Review: Janina Klement on Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation by Martin Levy

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The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures - Nicolas Langlitz, Clemente de Althaus, 2024 We may well be witnessing a decisive event in the history of knowledge as diversity is becoming one of the premier values of late modern societies. We seek to p...

“Viewpoint diversity” is a weapon with which to bludgeon universities and journals

Nicolas Langlitz and Clemente de Althaus on (viewpoint) diversity and the US culture wars, which we published in @histhum.bsky.social, is really worth a read journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interview: The Material Force of Categories Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of the April 2025 `Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’. HHS: Could I just start by asking you to introduc…

Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’.

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Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025 Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi...

Just published: ‘Equality’ has been mobilised (in nuanced and less nuanced ways) to support the genomics of who ‘makes it’ economically and educationally, drawing long-fraught links between cognitive ability, class and, potentially, ‘ancestry’. doi.org/10.1177/0952...

Review: Seven Children by Danny Dorling Stretched Apart Seven Children: Inequality and the Next Generation by Danny Dorling (Hurst Press, 2024) Katie Joice In 2016 Annie Liebowitz took a 90th birthday photograph of Queen Elizabeth II wit…

"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all."

Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

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Becka Hudson, 'Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison' in the latest issue

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// History of the Human Sciences journal is now on BlueSky.

Also: Early Career Prize deadline is 28 March 2025 //

Early Career Prize, 2024-25 History of the Human Sciences – the international journal of peer-reviewed research, which provides the leading forum for work in the social sciences, humanities, human psychology and biology that …

Apply for History of the Human Sciences' Early Career Prize! Winning essays will be published in the journal and winners receive £250.

Deadline 28 March 2025 📚📖

More details here:

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