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Al iniciar este blog me parece absolutamente necesario hacer mención de otros recursos (sin afan de citar todos los posibles) que también llevan años funcionando y pueden ser de utilidad para los lectores de este experimento que ahora se inicia. . El sitio web historiadelamedicina.org (que lleva dos blogs asociados) y que es, desde luego, el sitio más acabado. Mantenido por José Luis Fresquet, de la Universidad de Valencia, se nutre de los conocimientos profesionales en la gestión de este tipo de recursos que ha adquirido el profesor Fresquet. . La Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de la Técnicas tiene su propia lista de distibución (Lista Hª de la Ciencia) que funciona como un foro. . La Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina tiene su propia lista de distribución  (SEHM) . La Societat Catala de Història de les Ciència y de la Tècnica tine su propia lista de distribución (hct-l) Y luego en función de los intereses de cada uno existen muchas listas que pu...

Andrés Ríos Molina, La locura durante la revolución mexicana. Los primeros años del manicomio general La Castañeda, 1910-1920, México, El Colegio de México, 2009, 254 pags. ISBN 978-607-462-038-2. El manicomio General La Castañeda, inaugurado por el presidente Porfirio Díaz en el marco de las celebraciones del Centenario de la Independencia, fue un imponente complejo arquitectónico de veinticinco edificios con capacidad para mil doscientos pacientes. Este evento fue asumido por la élite porfiriana como el ingreso de México a la modernidad psiquiátrica. Desde su fundación hasta su clausura en 1968, ingresaron más de cincuenta mil pacientes. En este libro se reconstruye la historia del Manicomio con base en los expedientes clínicos de quienes fueron internados durante la primera década de funcionamiento: periodo que coincide con la etapa bélica de la Revolución mexicana. Además de las historias clínicas, en algunos expedientes reposan autobiografías, dibujos y poemas de pacientes y co...

Industrial Heritage 2009 4th European contact weekend for industrial heritage volunteers and associations Calais (France), 13-15.11.2009 E-FAITH, the European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage is a platform promoting contacts and co-operation between non profit volunteer associations, the place where those can meet, exchange experiences, learn from each other and support each other’s activities an campaigns. After the succesfull meetings in Beringen (2006), Kortrijk (2007) and Barcelona (2008), each attended by representatives from a dozen countries, E-FAITH is now going to organize a fourth European contact weekend for volunteers and non profit organisations that are engaged in the research, the preservation, the interpretation and/or the presentation of the industrial and technical heritage. It will again be an open and stimulating meeting where organisations and individuals can present and compare their ideas, projects and results - and find o...

Call for Papers for the organization of a session on ' The Universities in the Periphery' at the 7th STEP meeting (17-20 June 2010, Galway, Ireland). Kostas Gavroglu, Agustí Nieto-Galan and Ana Simoes

The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939) A Conference debating the work of Albert Moll in Medical Ethics, Sexology, Psychology and Parapsychology sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University and supported by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine Thursday 5th - Friday 6th November, 2009 To be held at Durham University, Stockton on Tees, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, Seminar Room For a booking form and further information, please visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/news/mollconference/ For directions to Queen's Campus, Stockton, please visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/maps/ It would be appreciated if the poster on the following link could be advertised http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/chmd/events/mollconference/poster/Posterfinal2.pdf ************* Programme Thursday, 5th No...

Dear All, The new autumn programme of Wellcome Library workshops can be found on the Library website at:   http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node32.html The workshops provide introductions to research and information resources at the Library, and are aimed at the general public. The programme includes:  - thematic workshops on Science in the News, Medicine and Literature and the History of medicine;  - training on specific resources such as the Wellcome Images database and Nineteenth Century Newspaper databases;  - and introductions to the Wellcome Archives and genealogical research resources at the library. All workshops are free and available to everyone upon joining the library (library membership is free and open to all). To book a place on any of the workshops, please use the online booking facility link on the library web site:   http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node32.html With best wishes, Lalita Kaplish Discovery and Engagement Wel...

Ciutat i hospital a l’Occident europeu (segles XIII-XVII) Ciudad y hospital en el Occidente europeo (siglos XIII-XVII) City and hospital in the European West (13th-17th centuries) Ciutat i hospital a l’Occident europeu (segles XIII-XVII) , és una proposta de simposi internacional organitzat en el marc de l’acord de col·laboració entre la Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF-CSIC) i l’Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (IEI) per a l’estudi i difusió del patrimoni i de la història de l’assistència hospitalària baixmedieval i moderna a Catalunya. El seu principal objectiu és l’estudi dels intercanvis culturals entre espai hospitalari i ciutat entre els segles XIII i XVII, tot apropant-se al fenomen de l’assistència social amb particular atenció a l’escenari privilegiat que constitueix la institució hospitalària. Concretament, el propòsit d’aquesta trobada és abordar l’estudi dels antics hospitals des d’una perspectiva polièdrica, al voltant d’eixos explicatius, com ara el seu rol...

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology will hold its bi-annual conference from September 2 – 4, 2010 in Trento, Italy. The overall theme will be PRACTISING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMING THE SOCIAL; and the focus will be explicitly on practice and performance. The conference will be organized in approximately 20-30 parallel thematic tracks. They have an ongoing call for proposals to these tracks, the deadline is October 12! Teams for convening such a track are allowed up to 4 people. On the site ( http://w ww.easst.net/node/2326 ) you find several fields, but two of them “medicine and healthcare as technoscientific practices” and “The ´doing` of bodies and gender in science and technology” could be of interest for scholars in medical anthropology. Submissions for tracks should address broad issues and themes in order to attract a large number of scholars. Further on, submissions are expected to include an outline of the proposed theme and the area of int...

Benvolgudes companyes, benvolguts companys, us convidem al Congrés ICREA CIÈNCIA I SOCIETAT A LA CORONA D'ARAGÓ La vernacularització del saber i la configuració de les identitats lingüístiques europees a l'època de Llull i Eiximenis Barcelona, 20-22 d'octubre de 2009 Trobareu el programa a http://www.sciencia.cat/noticies/icrea2009.htm Fins aviat, Alexander Fidora

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II (Lorraine Daston), announces four Postdoctoral Fellowships for up to two years, starting date September 1, 2010. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The fellowship is awarded in conjunction with the research project The Sciences of the Archive. Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or related field at the time the fellowship begins; the Ph.D. degree should have been awarded in 2007 or later. Research projects may concern any culture or historical period (including the present). Although projects must have a history of science component, both the human and natural sciences are included under that rubric and additional relevant disciplinary perspectives are welcome. Possible topics include: - The material culture of selecting, collecting, preserving, classifying, and transmitting knowledge (e.g. libraries, museums, and data bases but also collections of astronomical observati...