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This volume will be published with Medica: Studies in Pre-Modern Health and Healing (Routledge). The history of healing has a rich body of scholarship, albeit one that is scattered across time, topic, and place. This volume seeks to bring together this rather disparate field by soliciting engaging works that explore the nature of healing, broadly defined, through a variety of lenses from history to ethnopharmacology to archaeology and beyond from the Ancient World to 1800. Only through interdisciplinary work does the study of pre-modern health and healing begin to take shape. As healing knows few boundaries, this volume will explore care and cure across the globe in an effort to highlight common threads and themes. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Recipes, their development, use and abuse Pharmacology Reception, transfer, translation, reuse, and misuse of healing knowledge and techniques Professionals and practitioners Spaces and places of healing Religion and ritual M...

Chemists as activists: From Linus Pauling to Green Chemistry A session of the 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (14 ICHC) , 11 to 14 June 2025, Valencia. The session aims to approach activist-chemists as epistemologically active actors and their role in the co-production of chemical knowledge. From the Cold War to the present, we want to explore exchange zones and public spheres in which chemists struggled for public recognition and scientific authority and opposed hegemonic chemical projects and practices of their time. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a chemical project, it may become a constructive force in technological development . In the framework of the new participatory turn, activists’ protests outside a research institute, the citizens’ vote on a waste disposal facility, or a public debate to submit results to policy makers, all express: “a profound change in the terms and conditions under which scientific knowledge is...

Post-doctoral position in History of the Physical Sciences The Niels Bohr Archive and the Section for History and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Science Education invite applicants for a three-year Post-doctoral position in history of the physical sciences. The selected candidate will work with Professor Richard Staley on a project of their own design. Projects that develop creative approaches to the history of the climate sciences, physics as an environmental science, the collections of the Niels Bohr Archive, physics education and/or the past and future of science archives would be particularly welcome. Start date is 1 April 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. Who are we looking for? Applicants should have a PhD in history of science or a closely related field of study and significant research experience in the history of the physical sciences. The field of specialisation is open but a willingness to engage across traditional subject and disciplinary boundaries and to...

The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg, GRK) 2696 "Transformations of science and technology since 1800: topics, processes, institutions" (funded by the German Research Foundation) is seeking six doctoral candidates, who will be starting their employment with a postgraduate scholarship (six months) which is followed by three years as research assistant (f/m/d) at 65% of standard working hours (paygrade: E 13 TV-L) from April 1, 2025 for a time of three and a half years maximum. The GRK is a joint project of the research groups of history (history of science and technology, history of mathematics), philosophy (philosophy of science, philosophy of physics) and sociology (sociology of science and organizations) in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies (IZWT). It focuses on the analysis of topics, processes and institutions of transformations in science and technology with particular attention to the historical contextualization and the complex i...