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Insurance history has enjoyed an increasing presence in general economic history conferences around the world. The 15th (Utrecht, 2009), 16th (Stellenbosch, 2012) and 17th (Kyoto, 2015) World Economic History Congresses (WEHC) each included sessions on the insurance business, some of which generated more specialised academic events. The insurance history session at the 16th WEHC, in particular, attracted a wide audience of international experts, while at the 17th WEHC, insurance history expanded its presence with two specialised sessions. All these meetings have resulted in numerous publications, either as research articles in international peer-reviewed journals, or as books produced by leading academic publishers to the highest standards. The historical study of insurance as a private business has been complemented in recent years by another key line of research focused on social insurance. In this field, papers on workplace accident insurance, pensions, health insu...

Author: Laura Kelly This book is the first comprehensive history of medical student culture and medical education in Ireland from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1950s. Utilising a variety of rich sources, including novels, newspapers, student magazines, doctors’ memoirs, and oral history accounts, it examines Irish medical student life and culture, incorporating students’ educational and extra-curricular activities at all of the Irish medical schools. The book investigates students' experiences in the lecture theatre, hospital, dissecting room and outside their studies, such as in ‘digs’, sporting teams and in student societies, illustrating how representations of medical students changed in Ireland over the period and examines the importance of class, religious affiliation and the appropriate traits that students were expected to possess. It highlights religious divisions as well as the dominance of the middle classes in Irish medical schools w...

The editors of the online magazine Dósis: medical humanities + social justice -- a new project of Med Hum | Daily Dose -- are seeking contributors for their debut issue: “Sickness and Health in the Era of Trump.” Since January 2017 we have seen the steady erosion of our national -- and international -- well-being under the GOP-led government. We have also seen citizens and residents in all corners of our nation mounting a steady resistance against the erasure of progress made in the eight years of President Obama’s administration. Progress toward better access to healthcare, environmental sustainability, de-escalation of violence, and the recognition of human rights for all people living within and without our national borders. Dósis seeks essays, commentary, reviews, and visual art that speaks to both destruction and resistance in the era of Trump. Please share widely--information on submission here: https://medhumdosis.com/style- sheet/current-call/

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany, July 5-7, 2018 Call for papers and posters The Committee for Integrated HPS and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science invite the submission of individual paper and poster abstracts for “The Evolution of Knowledge/&HPS7”, the 7 th conference in the series Integrated History and Philosophy of Science . We seek contributions that genuinely integrate the historical and philosophical analysis of science (i.e., the physical sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences), or discuss methodological issues surrounding the prospects and challenges of integrating history and philosophy of science. (For information about &HPS and previous conferences, see http://integratedhps.org/en/ ) The theme "evolution of knowledge" aims at refocusing the history and philosophy of science on long-term an...

Date: 3-4 May 2018, Hamburg Organisers: Dr Monika Ankele (Department for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf) and Prof. Benoît Majerus (Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg) Deadline: 15 December 2017 Languages : German, English In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs and binding belts. These powerful objects are often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients are treated. But what do we really know about the social life (see Majerus 2011) of psychiatric patients and the stories of less spectacular objects in the everyday life of psychiatric institutions? What do we know about the material cultures of these places in general?    The workshop will use the term “material cultures” very broadly and in the plural. This term refers not only to medical objects, objects of ...

The Local Arrangements and Program Committees are busy preparing for the upcoming joint Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences/Medical Museum Association Annual Meeting (ALHHS/MeMA) meeting in Los Angeles, May 9-10, 2018. Our conference brings together archivists, librarians, museum professionals, educators, historians and representatives of allied professions and it is the place for our community to engage, network, and learn from each other’s experiences. The advent of social media, big data, and digital environments is changing the nature of the records we collect, their dissemination, as well as educational practices. The impact of this shift challenges some theoretical and methodological paradigms of our professions. The goal of this meeting is to examine critical issues in documenting, preserving, accessing, and teaching with health sciences collections in the newly emerging landscape. The Program Committee welcomes your help in mak...

Part of DIALOGUES 2017: a thought-provoking series of seminars on governance in Muslim contexts The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is hosting  Governance and Public Health in Early Nineteenth-Century Egypt   in the fourth seminar of its 2017 Dialogues Series. Dr Kamran Karimullah will explore the role that medical practice and medical discourse played in the historical evolution of political power and society in nineteenth-century Egypt. He will look at how shifts in the practice of political power were manifested in medical discourse and what medical texts can tell us about the nature of political power in Egypt during this period. He will also examine how translation mediated the reception of European medical discourse into Arabic as well as how it mediated the reception of techniques of what Michel Foucault has called “bio-power”. Dr Junaid Quadri will explore the fact that both heal...

Up, down, round and round: verticality in the history of science Work on the historical geographies of scientific knowledge is frequently presented in a register of horizontal movement: circulation, diffusion, migration, expansion; often coupled with the ‘flat’ ontologies of actor-network theory, or with the historiographies of European advance across two-dimensional maps of imperial geography. In this session, we want to investigate what happens when we consider science in three dimensions. Political geographers have recently urged more attention to the vertical as a dimension of power (Braun, 2000; Elden, 2013), while cultural geographers have explored questions of dwelling and elemental encounter in atmospheric and subterranean spaces (Adey, 2015; Jackson & Fannin, 2011). Drawing on this work, we suggest that the spatial turn in the history of science might be furthered through deeper engagement with questions of verticality. What are the particular c...

DIGITIZATION COLLABORATIVE PROVIDES OPEN ACCESS TO OVER 100 YEARS OF AMERICAN MEDICAL HISTORY THROUGH THE INTERNET ARCHIVE The Medical Heritage Library has completed its National Endowment for the Humanities-funded initiative Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Societies, State Medical Journals, and the Development of American Medicine , 1900-2000   Boston, MA, October 2, 2017. The Medical Heritage Library has released 3,907 state medical society journal volumes free of charge for nearly 50 state medical societies, including those for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, through the Internet Archive ( http://www.medicalheritage. org/content/state-medical- society-journals/ ) . The journals –  collectively held and digitized by Medical Heritage Library members The College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine; the Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health at The New York Academy of Medicine; the ...

The position is described briefly thus: “The successful candidate’s research will focus on ancient science in its intersection with ancient philosophy, that is, natural philosophy broadly conceived, including fields such as medicine, mathematics, and natural science. The successful candidate will be fully qualified to contribute as a regular member in the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CPAMP), a vibrant graduate collaborative program between the Departments of Classics and Philosophy and the Centre for Medieval Studies.” The position is offered at both assistant and associate professor levels, so applicants should apply to whichever fits their circumstances. https://utoronto.taleo.net/car eersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl ?job=1701616 https://utoronto.taleo.net/car eersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl ?job=1701617&tz=GMT-07%3A00

The International Committee for the History of Technology , ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize , which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume in 2016 or 2017. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country who are currently in graduate school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years . Please s...

===CfA:  Workshop "Inconsistency and Scientific Pluralism"===   When: November 8, 2017 Where: Ghent University, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science Workshop website:  http://www.clps.ugent .be/events/inconsistency-and-s cientific-pluralism Deadline for submitting abstracts: October 20, 2017 ===Description=== This workshop is devoted to connections between inconsistency toleration and scientific pluralism. Some views on the topic have recently been analyzed in the HumanaMente Special Issue  Beyond Toleration? Inconsistency and Pluralism in the Empirical Sciences  (available at:  http://www.humanamente.eu/ index.php/pages/64-issue32 ). Different forms of pluralism discussed in the issue include evidential pluralism (Parkkinen, Russo, Wallmann), methodological pluralism (Friend, Llored), and logical pluralism (Batens). We welcome submissions addressing the following and related questions: (i) What are the rele...

*Permissions, Obligations, and Beyond* Guest Editors: Piotr Kulicki ( kulicki@kul.pl ) and Olivier Roy ( Olivier.Roy@uni-bayreuth.de ) *Submission deadline: November 15st, 2017* Exercising one’s rights, or acting on one’s permission can generate obligations for others. Contract law and international law provide examples. Debtors are obligated to comply when their creditors exercise their right to request payment. Free trade agreements place their signatories under the obligation not to pass protectionist regulations. A similar phenomenon holds for permissions stemming from morality or rationality. Others ought not infringe my individual right to dignity. In negotiation, one party making a permissible offer might put the other under the (rational) obligation to accept it. When exactly, then, do permissions and rights generate obligations? What, more generally, should be the proper relationship between obligations and permissions? This is a fundamental questio...

Up, down, round and round: verticality in the history of science Work on the historical geographies of scientific knowledge is frequently presented in a register of horizontal movement: circulation, diffusion, migration, expansion; often coupled with the ‘flat’ ontologies of actor-network theory, or with the historiographies of European advance across two-dimensional maps of imperial geography. In this session, which we are planning to propose for the  International Conference of Historical Geographers  (Warsaw, 15-20 July 2018), we want to investigate what happens when we consider science in three dimensions. Political geographers have recently urged more attention to the vertical as a dimension of power (Braun, 2000; Elden, 2013), while cultural geographers have explored questions of dwelling and elemental encounter in atmospheric and subterranean spaces (Adey, 2015; Jackson & Fannin, 2011). Drawing on this work, we suggest that the spatial tu...

Over the past three decades, scholars and activists engaged in agriculture, food systems, and consumerism have demonstrated food’s significance to the human experience, particularly during the modern epoch. The subject of food provides scholars with an attractive interpretive lens for examining the dynamics of globalization and transnationality by shedding light on a wide range of hitherto unexamined processes and diverse political, economic, and cultural relationships. Drawing upon insights from History, Anthropology, and Sociology, as well as food policy studies and urban planning, a number of interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the central role of food in the formation and disintegration of ethnic and cultural identities, the industrialization and commercialization of food production and consumption, and the consequences of both for elite power and subaltern agency on both national and international scales of analysis. However, while such studies have ofte...

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs ( SHAD) seeks a new chief editor to join Dr James Kneale (editor), Dr David Beckingham and Dr Holly Karibo (reviews editors). The new chief editor will succeed Dr Dan Malleck, who will stand down in 2017. Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is a leading international journal and covers all social and cultural aspects of substance history. The journal is published twice a year on behalf of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. This is an exciting time for the journal as we are currently in discussion with a new academic publisher.  The new chief editor will oversee the move to more modern publication practices, including an online peer-review system and possible partnership with ProjectMUSE. We are looking for an experienced scholar in the field who will ensure editorial cohesion and the delegation of tasks to other editors. Editorial experience is desirable. There will also be an opportunity to re-shape the editorial board.  E...

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) invites applications for the position of Associate Professor or Full Professor in »Philosophy of Science and Technology« to begin in summer semester 2018. The position is a tenured W3 position. See more: http://portal.mytum.de/jobs/ professuren/NewsArticle_ 20170926_141845 The professorship belongs to the TUM School of Governance (GOV) and will be affiliated with the Integrative Research Center (IRC) Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). The TUM School of Governance focuses its research and teaching on the interaction between politics, society and technology, for instance to integrate future technologies into the political dialogue and decision-making. The MCTS is representing a cross-faculty integrative research center focusing its activities in interdisciplinary research, teaching, outreach, on the interface between science, technology and society.