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Reviewed by Kyle Bridge (University of Florida) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (November, 2015) Commissioned by Ashton W. Merck Of Addicted Mice and Men When it comes to addiction treatment, physician-scientist Markus Heilig is interested in results. In fact the title of his new book, The Thirteenth Step: Addiction in the Age of Brain Science, implies that we must build upon the existing “twelve-step” therapies with recent advances in neuroscience. Heilig’s book offers a brilliant and, perhaps more important, highly legible review of current addiction science. Most significant, its last chapters explore how these findings translate into practical treatments for addiction. Readers from a variety of fields—including the rightly skeptical social sciences—should benefit from Heilig’s entrée into the methods and practice of addiction research. However, some may come away disappointed by his noncritical engagement with the conceptualization of addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CR...

Final CFP and Extended Submission Deadline - 10 December 2015 Eighth Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS 22-25 June 2016, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The eighth joint meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  Previous successful meetings were in Philadelphia (2012), Oxford (2008), Halifax, Nova Scotia (2004), St Louis (2000), Edinburgh (1996), Toronto (1992), and Manchester (1988).   The theme of the meeting will by ‘Transitions’.  Although presenters are not confined to this theme, the Program Committee is seeking papers or sessions that reflect this theme and encourages participants to consider the broader scientific, scholarly and social implications associated with moments of scientific transition. The conference will take place at the University of Alberta. Founded in 1905, U...

C hers collègues, Clystère n° 45 – Decembre 2015 est paru ( December 2015 is online / Diciembre de 2015 acaba de salir ) : http://www.clystere.com SOMMAIRE N° 45 – DECEMBRE 2015 L’image du mois : Cartes postales d’Eleousa sur l’ile de Rhodes (Bernard Petitdant) Histoire des instruments et de la santé : -          Julien Marmont, dentiste de Joséphine et occasionnellement de Napoléon I er   (Xavier Riaud) -          Les objets médicaux à l’origine d’expressions argotiques (Jean-Bernard Cazalaà) -          Guibert, titulaire du diplôme de pharmacien de 1809 « Napoléon Empereur et Roi » (Frédéric Bonté) -          Un « Rosenwald » 1928-1929 (Bernard Petitdant) -          Ratery, coutelier marseillais au XVII...

Call for monographs :: Prize Committee :: List of recipients The ICOHTEC-Book (Dissertation) Prize is sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, in Porto, Portugal, from 26 to 30 July 2016 . An additional 500 Euro is available to the winner in support of travelling to the conference to receive the prize. ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology, focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.  Eligible for the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or S...

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) at the University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to carry out research into the sociological, philosophical and/or governance dimensions of the synthetic yeast project, an international project that aims to build a synthetic ‘designer’ version of the entire genome of the yeast species Saccharomyces cerevisiae ( http://syntheticyeast.org/ ). Applicants should have experience of conducting high quality academic research in the field of Science and Technology Studies, and should be willing to engage with scientists and engineers. The Research Fellow will belong to a dedicated cluster of researchers from the social sciences and humanities critically analysing the field of synthetic biology, and will be affiliated with the 'Engineering Life' project ( http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/engineeringlife ). This full-time, fixed-term post of 20 months is available from 1st February 2016 (start date...

From Trade Manual to Treatise and back again: the Transformation of Technical Literature, 1600-1800 We are seeking a third member for a panel proposal for SHARP’s (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) 2016 conference in Paris, 18-22 July 2016, “Languages of the Book/Les langues du livre” http://www.sharpweb.org/conferences/2016/call-for-papers/ This panel will explore how books of secrets, trade manuals, pamphlets, and other technical publications were transformed by time, translation, and transportation to scientific literature, and how the reverse also happened. Topics include, but are not limited to, any scientific or technical text whose initial publication was modest or important, but was transformed by later editions, adaptations, and translations. Of particular interest are texts that gained or lost importance by translation to another country, continent, or context. There is no geographic limit . Deadline: November 29, 2015 (panel subm...