History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We’re very happy this special issue is now published! 010
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesKing's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🩺 Professors Patrick ffrench and Neil Vickers have co-edited a special issue on the history and and epistemology of the medical humanities for @histhum.bsky.social. This edition marks the first time the field's development has been compared across the UK, France and USA ⬇️ buff.ly/kmzDlRCkcl.ac.ukSpecial journal issue on medical humanities published | King's College LondonTwo King’s academics have co-edited a special journal issue on the history of the medical humanities, representing a major milestone in the field. 043
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We 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 074
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesJohn Nott @jdnott.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Please 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...doi.orgSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 141
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026“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... 000
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026We'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 0510
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026❗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...histhum.comApplications open for new editor for HHS online blog (histhum.com) and social mediaThe 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. … 033
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 13/01/202630 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *histhum.comEarly Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human SciencesCredit: A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection. 143
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 13/01/202630 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *histhum.comEarly Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human SciencesCredit: A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection. 143
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesCollège des humanités médicales - COLHUM @colhum.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Neil 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/2099colhum.hypotheses.orgThe medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative historyNeil 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... 012
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 05/01/2026John 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/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 010
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesDr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Special 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...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 153
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Making 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/...journals.sagepub.comMaking space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain - David W. Jones, Craig Fees, 2025This article explores the pioneering rehabilitative work of the Q Camps Committee's Hawkspur Camp (1936–1941), which supported young men deemed at risk of ... 020
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Hey 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....journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 041
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesDr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I’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/...journals.sagepub.comRecovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor... 0106
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Recovery 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/...journals.sagepub.comRecovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor... 054
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025How 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/...journals.sagepub.comHow free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext... 011
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 17/11/2025How 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/...journals.sagepub.comHow free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext... 011
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Life, 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...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 022
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesHistory of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The 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/...journals.sagepub.comThe means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off... 001
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The 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/...journals.sagepub.comThe means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off... 001
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Life, 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...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 022
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 26/10/2025The 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/...journals.sagepub.comThe medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history - Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench, 2025This 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... 020
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 24/10/2025On 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/...journals.sagepub.comOf modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know - Jaap Bos, 2025Research into psychical phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism in the 19th century was so much hampered by fraudulent mediumship that researchers and the ... 041
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 23/10/2025On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comCapitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett, 2025Industrial location theory (ILT) attempted to grasp transformations in capitalist space, particularly the growth, transformation, and decline of industrial urba... 031
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This 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 052
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesAmanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm 041
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025An 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/...journals.sagepub.comOn the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice - Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, 2025Should medical humanities lie in an instrumental relation to medicine, assisting healthcare practitioners to conduct their work in more humane ways? Or should i... 011
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025History 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... 01013
Reposted by History of the Human Scienceswhc-grace.bsky.social @whc-grace.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Excited 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 164
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article! 010
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Jessica 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...journals.sagepub.comFreud in Cambridge: An institutional romance? - Jessica Dubow, 2022 262
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesDimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Published 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.doi.orgGenetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi... 121
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Congratulations 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! 🎊🎊🎊 141
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Review: Janina Klement on Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation by Martin Levy www.histhum.com/review-round...histhum.comReview: RoundhouseLevy, 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 … 000
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025“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...journals.sagepub.comThe moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures - Nicolas Langlitz, Clemente de Althaus, 2024We 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... 02512
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’. www.histhum.com/interview-th...histhum.comInterview: The Material Force of CategoriesInterview 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… 021
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesDimitra Kotouza @dimiktz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Just 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...doi.orgGenetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics - Dimitra Kotouza, 2025Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this fi... 1106
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 04/03/2025"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 www.histhum.com/review-seven...histhum.comReview: Seven Children by Danny DorlingStretched 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… 000
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Becka Hudson, 'Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison' in the latest issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 000
Reposted by History of the Human SciencesFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024// History of the Human Sciences journal is now on BlueSky. Also: Early Career Prize deadline is 28 March 2025 // 034
History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Apply 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: www.histhum.com/early-career...histhum.comEarly Career Prize, 2024-25History 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 … 012
