History of the Human Sciences

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

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.&nbsp…

❗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...

Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences Credit: A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

30 January 2026 deadline!

History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26

All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career...

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(if you have submitted to this year's prize already and have *not* received an email acknowledgement, please *resend*: we lost access to our journal's email for a couple of weeks earlier this month)

Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences Credit: A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

30 January 2026 deadline!

History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26

All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career...

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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...

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

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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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:
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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, 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 ...

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)
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"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

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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...

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...

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/...

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...

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

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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, 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...

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

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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

(Open Access)
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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