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La editorial de la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche ha publicado el libro Política, salud y enfermedad en España: entre el desarrollismo y la transición democrática Editado en formato electrónico está disponible en: http://editorial.umh.es/tag/transicion-democratica/

We invite your submission to the track ‘ Biosocial futures: from interaction to entanglement in the postgenomic age ’ at the Joint conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The meeting is in  Barcelona, August 31 - September 3, 2016.  Abstract Deadline:  Feb. 21, 2016 Submit abstracts online at:  http://www.sts2016bcn.org/ Panel title: Biosocial futures: from interaction to entanglement in the postgenomic age Co-organizers: Aryn Martin (York University), Maurizio Meloni (University of Sheffield), Megan Warin (University of Adelaide) This track seeks to bring together diverse empirical and theoretical streams/lines/approaches that defy the biology/society dichotomy. While networks, hybrids, and entanglements have long been features of STS analysis, the relevance of the social to biology and vice versa are increasingly marks of 21 st  c...

Dear Colleagues I'd be very grateful if you could alert bright MA students with a keen interest  in the history of emotions and wellbeing to these three new Wellcome funded Phd studentships at QMUL.  https://emotionsblog.history. qmul.ac.uk/2015/12/three- funded-phd-studentships-on- living-with-feeling-project/   The deadline for applications is 31 January.  With all good wishes, Rhodri

Estimados colegas, Acaba de ser publicado un número monográfico sobre historias de la fisiología en América Latina, en la Revista Ciencias de la Salud , sección de Estudios Sociales de la Salud . Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. Los artículos se pueden descargar en el siguiente link: http://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/revsalud/issue/view/316/showToc ARTÍCULOS: Sociedad, raza, Nación y el funcionamiento del organismo humano. Historias alternativas de la fisiología en América Latina . Stefan Pohl-Valero Vitalismo, idéologie y fisiología en Buenos Aires. La polémica entre Cosme Argerich y Crisóstomo Lafinur en El Americano , 1819 . Mariano Di Pasquale Té, café, curare y clima tropical en los experimentos de la fisiología brasilera a finales del siglo XIX . Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes Las investigaciones fisiológicas sobre la sangre y las interpretaciones de Brasil en la primera mitad del siglo XX . Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti ¿Agresiones de la al...

The University of Notre Dame History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program seeks to appoint two Postdoctoral Fellows in history and/or philosophy of science. Appointments begin August 2016 for one year, and are renewable for a second year. Applications are welcome from scholars working in any area of history and/or philosophy of science, technology and/or medicine, including the human, physical and social sciences. In addition to pursuing their research and participating actively in the intellectual life of the program, the ND HPS Postdoctoral Fellows teach one course per semester, which may be either graduate or undergraduate. ND HPS Postdoctoral Fellows are strongly encouraged to teach a graduate seminar in their area of specialization. The annual stipend is $48,000 in the first year, rising to $50,000 in the second year. In addition to the stipend, the package includes health insurance, $4000 per year of research and conference travel funds, and up to $3000 in relocation e...

Dear Colleague, This message has the purpose of divulge the  "History of Science International Conference Connecting Worlds. Production and circulation of knowledge in the First Global Age (1500-1800)" to be held in Porto from May 18 to 20, 2016. The Call for papers is already opened. Further information can be found at the conference website: https://historyofscienceup.wordpress.com/ The meeting will be co-sponsored by CITCEM–U Porto (Centro Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória) and CIUHCT–UL  (Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia da Universidade de Lisboa). The conference should be an occasion for interaction between experts on colonial history, global history and the history of science. We hope for a fruitful dialogue between recent trends in these fields that tend so far to run in parallel.  Attached, you will find a more detailed description of the event. The conference is expected to reunite experts in t...

DATE OF WORKSHOP: 10-12 October 2016 PLACE: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ORGANIZER/HOST: Research program „History of the Max Planck Society” (GMPG) CONTACT: Jaromir Balcar, Florian Schmaltz, Alexander von Schwerin commercialization@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Deadline for abstracts (250-300 words): 28 February 2016 The relationship of science and technology – often seen as the relation of basic and applied research – is a constant theme in science and technology studies. Especially the commercialization of scientific research has steadily gained attention in the last years. Our workshop will focus on scientific institutions such as universities, independent research institutes and other national and international scientific organizations, and the roles they play in the commercialization of science. The contributions to the workshop should examine the process of commercialization in science with a special focus on scientific institutions and thei...

The series Cultural Dynamics of Science (CDS) just published its first volume: Bernard Lightman, ed. Global Spencerism. The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist . Leiden: Brill, 2015. See: http://www.brill.com/products/ book/global-spencerism A number of further titles are in preparation. Yet we would like to use this opportunity to remind interested authors to submit manuscripts to our series. http://www.brill.com/products/ series/cultural-dynamics- science CDS aims to contribute to on-going efforts in the history of science to understand the relations between the production, communication, consumption and use of knowledge without having recourse to the traditional equation of popularization with notions such as 'diffusion' and 'simplification'.  The same goes for the distinctions they imply between expert knowledge and practices, on one side, and lay communities and understanding on the other. Focused on the modern period, from the E...

Please note the slight amendments to the competition requirements: The World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine is pleased to announce its 2016 Young Scholars Award Competition. This is for the best original essay on any topic of relevance to the history of the veterinary field. First Prize: 1000 Euro plus up to 1000 Euro expenses to present the paper at the WAHVM biennial Congress in Vienna, 27-30 July 2016 Second Prize: 400 Euro Third Prize: 200 Euro All prizes will be awarded at the Vienna congress (for details see https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/ de/eava-wahvm-2016/welcome-to- vienna/ ). The first prize winner must attend and present the paper to collect the prize money. Application requirements 1. The competition is open to current students of all educational backgrounds, and to those within 5 years of the award of their PhD or equivalent professional degree (eg DVM, VetMB etc) 2. Submitted papers will be accepted either published (not earl...

Special Double Issue Call for Papers: Health in the South Editor: Philip Kolin, The University of Southern Mississippi Publication Schedule: Volume 53, no. 3/4 (Spring/Summer 2016) Submission Deadline: March 15, 2016 The Southern Quarterly solicits carefully documented essays on the history of disease, medical care, and medical institutions in the antebellum and post-bellum South; health care and race;  the contributions of prominent 19th- and early to mid-20th-century health care practitioners in the South; health care and the Civil War; the rise of public health agencies in the South; health care and the environment;  health care and 19th- and 20th-Century Southern literature—representation of nurses, doctors, and disease in plays, poems, and fiction; health care and the visual arts; health care and popular Southern culture and media. Essays ranging from 20-30 pages (double-spaced) must be received before March 15, 2016 to be considered for this...