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Autor: Rafael Huertas Este libro recopila una serie de artículos cuyo denominador común es el intento de articular historia y clínica. No una historia positivista, descriptiva, acumulativa, complaciente con el pasado y acrítica con el presente, sino otra historia, analítica, hermenéutica y crítica, que interpele al pasado para pensar el presente y para actuar o propiciar actuaciones suficientemente fundamentadas. Otra historia que permita identificar, y diferenciar, una psiquiatría positivista, cuantitativa, simplificada, esencialista, organicista y, en buena medida, ateórica y ahistórica, y otra psiquiatría que, considerando fundamental un marco teórico psico[pato]lógico, entiende las llamadas enfermedades mentales como construcciones discursivas revisables y sujetas a cambios sociales y culturales. Una visión no positivista y no esencialista en la que el sujeto (mediatizado por el lenguaje) prima sobre la «enfermedad», en la que se presta la máxima atención a la subjetividad...

The 2017 CSTHA biennial conference will be held November 3–5 at King’s University College in London, Ontario. The Program Committee invites papers addressing this year’s conference theme: “Innovation or Aberration? Science, Technology and Historical Meanings of Failure.” Recognizing that 2017 is a year of celebrating Canada’s many achievements and innovations, we welcome papers dedicated to the messy historical processes that provide the back story to such successes — a context that is often filled with numerous missteps, wrong turns, and even failures that official narratives of innovation often do not completely convey. Our conference will be guided by several questions: Why do some technologies thrive while others fail? When can a technology be labeled a “success”? How do social and cultural factors influence scientific, medical, or technical inquiries? Topics may include, but are not limited to: technological failure or “failed” technologies; organizational cu...

The W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its first annual W. Bruce Fye Medical History Research Travel Grant.  The grant is available to physicians, historians, medical students, graduate students, faculty members, and independent scholars who wish to use archival and library resources at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The grant (up to $1,500 in one calendar year) may be used for transportation, lodging, food, and incidental expenses relating to the research project. It is available to residents of the United States and Canada who live more than 75 miles from Rochester. The W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine houses archival collections that contain official records of the Clinic and its administrative offices, official and unofficial publications, departmental annual reports, committee minutes, photographic and moving images, sound recordings, personal papers, and memorabilia relating to the Mayo Clinic, its mi...

TiLPS, Tilburg University, NL 26-27 June 2017 https://scientificerror2017. wordpress.com/ Invited Speakers: Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh Barbara Osimani, LMU Munich Wendy Parker, Durham University Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, University of Amsterdam This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in issues of scientific error. Participants share their views on how scientific errors can be detected and corrected, how they influence scientific communities, and the perception of science as a whole. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: o replicability of research findings o statistical and social reforms to address error (e.g., Bayesian vs frequentist statistics, publication practices, incentive structures) o evidence aggregation, meta-analysis, and evidence hierarchies o error propagation and error correction o values in science, and their impact on scientific error o trus...

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the international organization tasked with coordinating research in Antarctica and as part of its 60yr Anniversary celebration, has decided to open its archives for a comprehensive study. This is SCAR’s veritable legacy of sixty years of research coordination at the bottom of the world. We are looking for an enthusiastic and bright scholar to examine the archival documents in order to better understand SCAR’s role in the shaping of Antarctic science and geopolitics as well as to use the historical evidence to cast new light on Antarctica’s present and future. The SCAR archive consists of official documents and correspondence from 1958 to the early 2000s stored in approximately thirty boxes at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI, Cambridge, UK). The materials document meetings; projects in glaciology, oceanography, solid earth science, and environmental conservation; negotiations and related agreements in th...

ohn Scholes Prize Competition for 2017 is open, with a deadline for submissions of 31 July 2017. The prize, which carries a cash recognition (275 Euros), is awarded annually to the writer of a publishable paper based on original research into any aspect of the history of transport and mobility. The prize is intended to recognise budding transport historians. It may be awarded to the writer of one outstanding article, or be divided between two or more entrants. Typically, the prize is awarded for research completed as part of a PhD. Publication in the Journal of Transport History will be at the discretion of the Editor and subject to the normal refereeing process. The prize is funded by the Transport History Research Trust in memory of John Scholes. John was the first Curator of Historical Relics at the British Transport Commission. The prize is administered by the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M – www.t2m.org ). ...

Second Annual GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History Creating Historical Knowledge Socially New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars October 26-28, 2017, Washington DC International Workshop and Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington In collaboration with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Conveners: Sheila Brennan (GMU), Matthew Hiebert (GHI), Simone Lässig (GHI), and Trevor Muñoz (MITH) Keywords: community sourcing; crowd sourcing; methods of citizen science in digital history; data quality in the humanities; creating digital corpora; Quellenkritik in the digital age; social knowledge creation. This event seeks to assess through international dialogue the state-of-the-art in the use of community-sourcing, crowdsourcing, citizen science and other public-based collaborative approa...

Causa sive ratio: causality and reason in modernity between metaphysics, epistemology and science Date and Location: 14-16 November 2017, Università degli Studi di Milano Website:  https://easychair.org /cfp/causa00 Description: The very advent of modernity in philosophy could be interpreted through the lens of the fundamental redefinition of causality in the ontological, epistemological and logical separation of cause from reason. From the rejection of formal and final causes in the generation of Descartes and Gassendi, the debates on these questions in the period of Hobbes, Spinoza and Leibniz, to the phenomenalization of causation in Hume and its subsequent idealization in Kant's  Critique of Pure Reason , we can see the definitive conceptual separation between logical implication, epistemic explanation and physical causation. It is this historical conceptual transformation and its present consequences that is the object of this conference.  What ...

The new issue of Medical History (Volume 61 - Issue 2 - April 2017) is out now. The issue features the following articles: ‘‘They Shall See His Face’: Blindness in British India, 1850–1950’ (Aparna Nair) ‘Interweaving Ideas and Patchwork Programmes: Nutrition Projects in Colonial Fiji, 1945–60’ (Sarah Clare Hartley) ‘Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter’s Hospital, Bristol, 1698–1861’ (Leonard Smith) ‘Surviving the Lunacy Act of 1890: English Psychiatrists and Professional Development during the Early Twentieth Century’ (Akinobu Takabayashi) ‘Between Securitisation and Neglect: Managing Ebola at the Borders of Global Health’ (Mark Honigsbaum) ‘Cutting the Flesh: Surgery, Autopsy and Cannibalism in the Belgian Congo’ (Sokhieng Au) Further information is available via Medical History's website: https://www.cambridge.org/ core/journals/medical-history/ latest-issue

The School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds invites applications to its Non-Stipendiary Visiting Fellowships scheme for the academic year 2017-18. Visiting fellows will be provided with full library and information systems access, and office space where possible. There are no formal duties. Fellows will be expected to pursue their research and participate in seminars, reading groups, and other aspects of the research life of one or more of the research centres affiliated with the school: Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, Centre for Ethics and Metaethics, Centre for Aesthetics, Centre for Philosophy of Religion, and Centre for Religion and Public Life. Fellowship periods can be from a couple of months to one year. The fellowships are non-stipendiary. Junior and senior applicants are equally welcome, though applicants must hold a PhD. Proposed research projects should clearly m...

The British Society for the History of Science ( http://www.bshs.org. uk ) would like to call your attention to upcoming deadlines for our travel and research grants. Travel Grants to Rio: If you are attending the International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in Rio this summer, the BSHS is offering grants of £750 to support the cost of your travel. Applications are due 17 March 2017.  More details can be found here:  http://www.bshs.org.uk/ applications-for-travel- grants-for-the-international- congress-of-the-history-of- science-and-technology   Research Grants:  The BSHS is also offering small grants (from £50 to £500) for specific research purposes, such as archival visits, research trips, photography or microfilming, or temporary research assistance costs. Grants are not available for costs associated with publication. Applications are particularly welcomed from those early in their research careers. Preference i...

The School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at the University of Leeds invites applications to its Non-Stipendiary Visiting Fellowships scheme for the academic year 2017-18. Visiting fellows will be provided with full library and information systems access, and office space where possible. There are no formal duties. Fellows will be expected to pursue their research and participate in seminars, reading groups, and other aspects of the research life of one or more of the research centres affiliated with the school: Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, Centre for Ethics and Metaethics, Centre for Aesthetics, Centre for Philosophy of Religion, and Centre for Religion and Public Life. Fellowship periods can be from a couple of months to one year. The fellowships are non-stipendiary. Junior and senior applicants are equally welcome, though applicants must hold a PhD. Proposed research projects should clearly mes...

CASEBOOKS opens in London this week. A casebook is a written collection of cases. In the decades around 1600, a pair of English astrologer-physicians produced one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. The Casebooks Project is making these records understandable through a digital platform. CASEBOOKS is a collaboration between the Casebooks Project, Ambika P3 and six artists. The exhibition explores resonances between creative works and historical questions. What is a medical encounter? How do we understand our place in the world? What remains when we are gone? Ambika P3 is a 14,000 square foot experimental art space, formerly the concrete testing laboratory at the Polytechnic of Central London. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of events, beginning with the Private View on Thursday 16 March and the Artists and Curator Seminar on Friday 17 March. All events take place at Ambika P3 (Baker Street Tube). Details online and below....

The Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, is inviting applications for an assistant position in Ancient Philosophy. Candidates are expected to complete a Ph.D. in Geneva. Knowledge of French sufficient for teaching is required, therefore the advertisement below appears in French. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2017. Conditions : Être en possession d’une maîtrise de philosophie ou d’une licence ès lettres. Avoir un projet de recherche en cours et s’engager à inscrire une thèse dans le domaine de la philosophie antique au Département. Posséder une excellente maîtrise de Philosophie et avoir des compétences dans les domaines des langues classiques et de l’ontologie ou philosophie du langage ou logique ou philosophie de la science. Cahier des charges : Il s’agit d’un poste à 7/10 e qui passera à 10/10 e dès la troisième année. L’assistant-e participera aux enseignements (en français) de Bachelor en assumant en particulier un séminaire d...