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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

"Thinking about the Technical Objects of Occupational Health, 18th-20th Century" , at the upcoming conference of the French Society for the History of Science and Technology (Nancy, April 9-11, 2025). The full abstract is available on the SFHST website here . Presentations can be made in French or English, and we encourage those working on regions outside of Europe and the United States to participate.

Papers are invited for a special issue on "Computing and the Built Environment" in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/an/cfp-special-proposal-on-computing-and-the-built-environment This call seeks original historical research exploring techniques and discourses on environmental computability at the mesoscale of buildings and urban infrastructures.

The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement began in the 1980s, reached its peak perhaps in the 1990s, and has since then enjoyed the status of orthodoxy, despite many criticisms being raised among medical practitioners and researchers. Philosophers of medicine have frequently criticized EBM’s hierarchies and rigid precepts, especially the “gold standard” status of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). A pluralistic approach to evidence in medicine has been increasingly popular in recent years, in which mechanistic evidence and reasoning, observational studies of many kinds and RCTs are assessed for value on a case-by-case basis. But does this trend away from the EBM hierarchy go too far and risk the reintroduction of the same biased, motivated evidence-gathering practices that originally motivated the EBM movement? What light can recent experiences in medicine and public health (e.g., during the covid-19 pandemic) shed on these issues? Visit the website for the most up-to- date informat

The sociology of science, including explorations of its audiences and the interactions with other knowledges and actors, has been an extremely productive area in the historiography of modern science in the last decades. The research group ‘SCIENTIA-Scientific Texts and Ideas in the pre-modern Mediterranean area’ (Universitat de Barcelona) aims to bring to the fore discussions of these topics in the domain of the ancient, medieval, and pre-modern sciences, in which historiography has been traditionally centered on authors. Papers are welcome on the variegated themes related to these issues, comprising (not exhaustively): demarcation of scientific and mathematical discourses by philosophical and religious scholars establishment of curricula circulation of specialized, scientific knowledge and works in more general milieux discussion of the epistemological value of scientific disciplines and subdisciplines interactions between science and literature degrees of specialization/vulgarization

Science, Technology, & Human Values call for abstracts: Special Issue on Techno-Environmental Racialization The editorial collective of Science, Technology, & Human Values announces the journal’s 2024 Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue on Techno-environmental Racialization. Interested scholars should submit a proposal using this Google form by 15 November 2024. All proposals should include a title, 200-word abstract, a selected bibliography for the proposed contribution, and a short biography of the author/s. Diversity of contributions from scholars internationally, and at different career stages, is encouraged. The journal has some resourcing to provide specialised language editing for authors at institutions outside the Global North 2024 Topic: Techno-Environmental Racialization Special Issue editors: Mara Dicenta, Alberto Morales, Nathalia Hernández Vidal, Columba González-Duarte, and Daphne Esquivel-Sada Across territories, from water infrastructures and biodiversity c

The journal METASCIENCE is looking for new Editors in Chief. Metascience publishes book reviews in History and Philosophy of Science, and Science and Technology Studies. The journal was established in 1984 by the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and reaches 75,000 readers per year. Metascience’s main goal is to offer reviews of new books of note published in all languages in HPS. In addition, it also organizes symposia and anniversary reviews of classic books in HPS. The two Editors in Chief are responsible for selecting books for review, finding reviewers, and checking the reviews for quality. There is assistance available for the organization of book reviews and sending out review copies. The publisher also provides a yearly editorial stipend. Please reach out to the Editors in Chief or the publisher for more information. Editors in Chief: K. Brad Wray Jonathan Simon Publisher: Ties Nijssen