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DOSSIER MEDICINA MENTAL Y SOCIEDAD AUTORITARIA: SABERES Y PRÁCTICAS PSIQUIÁTRICAS EN EL PRIMER FRANQUISMO Editado por Ricardo Campos y Ángel González de Pablo Psiquiatría en el primer franquismo: saberes y prácticas para un «Nuevo Estado» Ricardo Campos y Ángel González de Pablo En los inicios de la psiquiatría franquista. El Congreso Nacional de Neurología y Psiquiatría (Barcelona, 1942) Rafael Huertas Por la psicopatología hacia Dios: psiquiatría y saber de salvación durante el primer franquismo Ángel González de Pablo La higiene mental durante el primer franquismo. De la higiene racial a la prevención de la enfermedad mental (1939-1960) Ricardo Campos y Enric Novella berian eugenics? Cross-overs and contrasts between Spanish and Portuguese eugenics, 1930-1950 Richard Cleminson ARTÍCULOS The transcontinental birth of a species: scientific discussions and natural history museums in the second half of the nineteenth century Carlos Sanhueza...

We invite research articles and notes that explore the interplay of science and daily life, the role of new technologies in scientific knowledge, the just-emerging and the strongly-persistent practice of science making and reporting, as well as other topics in the social organization and consequences of scientific knowledge. Contributions may address questions such as (but not limited to) the following: How is scientific research formulated, invoked and challenged in public debates about vaccination, homeopathy, GMOs, evolution, contraception, abortion, climate change and other  deeply controversial  issues of health, life and death? How do various scientific methods and discourses shape our  public knowledge of gender, age, race  and other social classifications – from neurosexism (Fine 2010) to social research ageism (Bodily 1994; Rughiniș and Humă 2015) and new forms of racism in heritability studies or IQ research (Block 1995), among others? Ho...

The University of Edinburgh’s Science, Technology and Innovation Studies subject group, in collaboration with National Museums Scotland , invites applications for a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship on the history of collecting scientific materials in museums. The studentship award has been made by the Scottish Cultural Heritage Consortium under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, due to begin in October 2017, will be supervised by Dr Niki Vermeulen and Dr Dominic Berry of the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Tacye Phillipson and Dr Sam Alberti of National Museums Scotland. The studentship will research and analyse the collecting practices of National Museums Scotland with a focus on materials from the sciences, looking at three key museum acquisitions: the transfer of material by Professor Lyon Playfair in 1858, including 18th-century chemical material such as Joseph Black’s glassware; the Scotland-wide university collecting surve...

Defending Modernity? Communicating With the Public about Nuclear Energy: Historical Perspectives The National Archives and the University of Leicester are pleased to invite applications for a   three-year (or part-time equivalent) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Studentship, available from October 2017 tenable at the University of Leicester in close collaboration with The National Archives. This doctoral award is funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Collaborative Doctoral Programme. The project will be supervised by Dr Sally Horrocks and Dr Ben Clements, at Leicester, and by Dr Stephen Twigge, Head of Modern Collections and Dr Tim Powell , Regional and Networks Team, at The National Archives . The Studentship The successful candidate will undertake a PhD thesis on how Government departments and state agencies that supported the development of nuclear power promoted and defended this commitment to the public ...

URL:  http://naturalhistory.stanford.edu Call for Panelists, Natural Things in their Environments: A Global Perspective, History of Science Society (November 9-12, 2017; Toronto, ON). For the Panel: Natural Things in their Environments: A Global Perspective Panel proposed by the Natural Things Project at Stanford University ( http://naturalhistory.stanford.edu ) Deadline for Paper Proposals: March 20, 2017 How did natural objects from around the world take on new meaning over the course of human history? We invite submissions for a panel that will take place at the annual conference of History of Science Society. Papers will explore how natural objects from around the world took on new meaning from antiquity to the present, across different environments, nations, cultures, and landscapes. This panel aims to bring together the study of natural history and methods of environmental historical anaylsis. Period: All. Regional expertis...

Patient Voices: Historical and Ethical Engagement with Patient Experiences of Healthcare, 1850–1948 An interdisciplinary, policy-focused symposium at New College, University of Oxford 18–19 September 2017 In 1948, diverse health provisions in Britain were consolidated into a single, state-directed service. After almost seventy years of the NHS—the bedrock of modern welfare—there is great concern about any return to a mixed economy of healthcare. The proposed privatisation of health services is controversial because it threatens to destabilise the complex relationships of patients with medical professionals and the state. It calls into question the structure and accessibility of healthcare, as well as the rights of patients, both as medical consumers and sources of medical data. Yet these are questions that equally shaped the development of the NHS prior to its foundation. Historical perspectives on pre-NHS healthcare—perspectives that are increasingly informed by...

Panel title: The Tropical City as Diseased: Races, Migrants and Subalterns in Southeast Asia For conference: "Living Cities: Tropical Imaginaries", 6-9 September, 2017, Singapore. URL:  https://www.tropicalimaginary.com/ Panel Abstract: This session considers an influential trope on Southeast Asian cities: colonial imaginaries of the backward, insanitary and disorderly urban dwellers – sometimes the natives but more frequently the immigrants. These imaginaries were to shape not only Western understandings of tropical disease and the emerging field of tropical medicine in the 19 th century. They also profoundly influenced both the colonial regimes’ perspectives of the unruly nature of the populations they governed – who had to be tamed into classifiable races – and the dark, wild and dangerous spaces of Southeast Asia’s primate cities – whose proliferation had to be stopped and reversed. Ultimately the imaginaries would define the identity and role ...

An AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Manchester and the Museum of Science and Industry We invite applications for a 3.5-year fully funded PhD studentship, beginning in October 2017, to explore the history of model engines and other demonstration equipment in education and museum display. The project is a collaboration between the University of Manchester, UK, and the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Manchester, and is funded by the Science Museums and Archives Consortium within the Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. About the project Model devices and demonstration equipment have found a wide variety of uses as tools for technical education, sources of public spectacle, aids to informal learning in museums, icons of industrial heritage, and physical symbols of the technological future. Through case studies of museum development and industry-teaching relations in twentieth-century Manc...

The Science Museum and the University of Leicester are pleased to invite applications for a three-year plus 6 months (42 months) AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD Studentship, starting on 1 October 2017 . The award is made by the Science Museums and Archives Consortium, which is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project will be supervised by Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Sally Horrocks, at Leicester, and Dr Oliver Carpenter, Curator of Infrastructure at the Science Museum and Dr David Rooney. The successful candidate will undertake a project about how new scientific and technical approaches to mass automobility and road safety (including pollution) were created at the highpoint of Britain’s ‘motor age’ in the 1960s. The project examines the experimentation with new technologies through applied research carried out in government agencies such as the Road Research Laboratory. The experiments incl...

The University of Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science , in collaboration with the Science Museum and the Boots Company Archive, invites applications for a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship on healthcare advertising in 20 th -century Britain. The studentship award has been made by the Science Museums & Archives Consortium under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, due to begin in October 2017, will be supervised by Dr James Stark and Dr Adrian Wilson at the University of Leeds, Dr Oisín Wall at the Science Museum, and Sophie Clapp at Boots Company Archive. The project will investigate, compare and explain the use of language, expertise and authority in printed advertisements and publicity produced for public audiences and medical professionals regarding different healthcare products and campaigns in twentieth-century Britain. Drawing especially on extensive records at the Science Museum and Boots Company Arch...

The Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Kent in collaboration with the Science Museum invites applications for a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship on artificial teeth in Britain, 1848-1948. The studentship award has been made by the Science Museums & Archives Consortium under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, due to begin in October 2017, will be supervised by  Dr Claire L. Jones  at the University of Kent and Dr Oisín Wall at the Science Museum. Project Information Artificial teeth have long been important aids for the toothless, but from the mid-nineteenth century, these items became popular consumer items. Enabled by the increasing use of anaesthesia and the professionalization of dentistry, the number of companies producing false teeth from new, cheaper and easier to work materials rapidly expanded; a huge variety of artificial teeth and dentures became availa...

AHRC-funded PhD studentship The University of Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science , in collaboration with the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester invites applications for a fully-funded three-year PhD studentship (or 5 years part-time) on electronics and gender in mid 20 th -century Britain. The project is especially suited to applicants with historical interests in gender, science & technology, and/or business. The studentship has been awarded by the Science Museums & Archives Consortium under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. The project, due to begin in October 2017, will be supervised by Graeme Gooday and Alison Fell at the University of Leeds, and Meg McHugh at the  Museum of Science and Industry, with Annie Jamieson at the National Media Museum in Bradford. This project looks at the mostly female workforce that brought about the enormous boom in British electronics after the First World War. This ...

Url:  https://sites.google.com/view/stuntingconference/ Stunting is one of the most important and widely-used indicators of malnutrition. Accordingly, the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals have identified the reduction of stunting rates as a key priority of development policy. While some countries, such as Nepal and Bangladesh, have experienced rapid declines in stunting rates (Headey et al., 2015; Headey and Hoddinott, 2015), stunting has remained extremely persistent in other countries, such as India (Subramanyan et al., 2011; Jayachandran and Pande, 2016). Although recent work has found a weak association between economic growth and reductions in stunting rates (Vollmer et al., 2014), there remains considerable debate among development professionals and academics about the best way forward. Developing alongside this modern literature is one that offers a valuable long-run perspective. Over the last few years, economic historians ...

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac. uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_ jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_ id=039148 A Postdoctoral Research Fellow is required for the ERC-funded project “Medical translation in the history of modern genomics” led by Dr Miguel Garcia-Sancho investigating the history of the international initiatives to map and sequence the human, pig and yeast genomes. You will investigate the yeast genome initiative. Evidence of high quality academic research in the field of History of Science and/or Science and Technology Studies; expertise in archival research methods, oral history, and socio-historical studies of mid-to-late 20th century biomedicine; and a willingness to work across your own field of expertise are all essential. This full-time, 35 hours, fixed-term post is available for 32 months from 17 July 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary: £32,004-£38,183 per annum. Closing date: 5pm (GMT) Friday 31st March 2017. More info about the project: http:...