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Culture Institute PhD Studentship in History of Medicine and Technology University of Leeds and Thackray Medical Museum "The ‘Oxford Knee’: From Local Collaborations to Global Surgical Dominance, 1966-present" Supervisors:  Dr James Stark  and  Professor Graeme Gooday Drawing on extensive archives at the  Thackray Medical Museum  in Leeds, the student will explore and explain how a chance collaboration between medicine and engineering led to a device which dominates global markets. Drawing on oral histories with practitioners and patients, correspondence, medical literature, newspapers and company records, the project will provide the first complete history of the Oxford Knee, helping us to understand how medical innovations become “successful” and the social impact of changing practices in orthopaedics. The project is especially suited to candidates with an interest in the history of medicine or technology in the twentieth century, medical hu...

The British Society for the History of Science is delighted to announce the 2018 call for applications to the Undergraduate Dissertation Archive Grants. This scheme is open to any undergraduate student that is writing a dissertation on a topic in the history of science, technology and medicine, and is intended to cover costs of travel, or similar associated with archival visits. The individual awards are for up to £250. Grant recipients will be invited to write a short account of their most exciting archival find for the BSHS magazine, Viewpoint. The deadline for applications is 4pm Friday 16th February 2018. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 23rd February 2018. An application form is available on the BSHS website.  http://www.bshs.org.uk/ outreach-and-education/ outreach-and-education- committee-grants Any queries about the scheme should be addressed to Dr Elizabeth Haines,   outreach@bshs.org.uk .

abstract submission deadline is 10th of February. More information on 2018 STS Italia:   https://www.frombelow- stsitaliaconf.org/ TRACK 8 The value of participation. Studying biomedical research participation through multiple heterogeneous valuation processes In recent years, a growing STS literature has investigated the role of “lay expert” people in the production of knowledge, technologies and innovation in the field of biomedical research. This literature has explored how lay experts, by forging alliances with medical professionals and exploring new organization arrangements, shape new modes of knowledge production and structure novel collective identities, subjectivities and forms of “biological citizenship”. In parallel, another strand of STS literature has investigated the involvement of lay experts and non-experts in the political economy of biomedical research, as participants, experimental subjects and tissue, data or bioinformation donors who are exploited as a source ...

ILLC participates in the recruitment programme at the Faculty of Science for top level female talent. This programme is named after the groundbreaking crystallographer Carolina MacGillavry, an alumna of the University of Amsterdam. The MacGillavry Fellowships < http://www.uva.nl/en/ faculties/faculteit-der- natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde- en-informatica/organisation/ macgillavry-fellowship/ macgillavry-fellowship.html > at the Faculty of Science are offered to women who excel in their discipline, who possess leadership potential and aspire to a career as a professor at the University of Amsterdam. For more information, see here: < https://www.illc.uva.nl/ NewsandEvents/News/Positions/ newsitem/9569/MacGillavry- Fellowship,-Tenure-Track- position-for-women-in-Logic- and-Computation > or at  www.uva.nl/en/content/ vacancies/2017/12/17-656- macgillavry-fellowship-tenure- track-position-for-women-in- logic-and-computation.html   or contact Prof. Sonja Smets at S...

The Science Museum is recruiting for a Curator of Technology and Engineering. This is a permanent full-time post. Do you have experience of working with technology and engineering collections and are you looking for your next career move? Do you have a broad knowledge of the history of technology and engineering with deeper knowledge of aspects of the twentieth-century story? Are you driven by a desire to share your knowledge and experience with the widest range of people? We are looking for a Curator of Technology and Engineering to work with our world-leading collections. You will develop and share knowledge of their history across a broad range of modern subjects such as transport, electronics, space technology and computing. You will make significant contributions to our collection move project. And you will provide excellent expert advice to the public and key stakeholders outside and inside the Science Museum Group. This role provides an exciting opportunity to join an energetic...

Exposició: Del 10 de gener al 10 d’abril de 2018 al primer pis del Palau de Cerveró. Institut d'Història de la Medicina i la ciència "López Piñero"  A la fi de març passat, hem rebut dels seus hereus la donació de la biblioteca del metge legista i catedràtic de Medicina Legal de la Universitat de Sevilla, Antonio Lecha-Marzo. La donació consisteix d’una banda, en prop de 200 volums, sobretot, de la seua especialitat i, d’una altra, en materials i documents del seu arxiu. Destaca la correspondència que va rebre de metges i investigadors espanyols, europeus (italians, belgues, portuguesos i francesos, especialment) i llatinoamericans com Juan Vucetich. En total, hi ha prop de 500 documents diferents en la donació, en bona part, articles publicats prèviament en premsa ...

A Cultural History of the Universe in the Renaissance (1450-1700) will be an edited volume in a six-volume series published by Bloomsbury Publishing, expected in August 2020. This series will be a part of Bloomsbury’s The Cultural History Series . For more information, see: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/the-cultural-histories-series/ Aims and Scope of the Six-Volume Series, A Cultural History of the Universe : The universe is, literally, everything that there is. However, commonly defined it is outer space, beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, from the Moon to the farthest galaxies. A Cultural History of The Universe traces the ways in which individuals and societies have interacted with the universe from Antiquity to the present. The emphasis will be on the West, effectively Europe and North America, but will necessarily fully examine the ancient Near East and the Islamic world, and contributors will be encouraged to make connections with the wider world where usefu...

Está accesible en Internet nuestra   Biblioteca Virtual . Hace cuatro años nos embarcamos en este proyecto en el que, gracias a  la tecnología   DIGIBIS   y su programa de gestión bibliotecaria   DIGIBIB , y con el patrocinio de la   Fundación “Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno” , nos marcamos el objetivo de difundir los fondos de la Biblioteca y del Archivo de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, al que se van agregando día a día más contenidos digitales. En la actualidad, consta de cerca de 1.700 títulos y más de 130.000 objetos multimedia asociados que abarcan, con preferencia, aquellas materias relacionadas de alguna manera con la historia y la práctica de la Medicina, tanto impresos como manuscritos. Igualmente, se enlazan con otros repositorios aquellos documentos que previamente han sido digitalizados por los mismos, y acompaña a la descripción del documento una imagen de la portada en las nuevas adquisiciones. Todo este contenido, co...

Procesos de salud, enfermedad y prácticas de curar: miradas interdisciplinarias en la construcción del conocimiento.  Córdoba, Argentina,  10, 11 y 12 de octubre de 2018.   Organizan: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Sobre Cultura y Sociedad CIECS (CONICET y UNC). Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. A más de una década de la realización del primer TALLER DE HISTORIA SOCIAL DE LA SALUD Y LA ENFERMEDAD EN ARGENTINA, buscamos continuar fortaleciendo la construcción de conocimiento científico, la socialización y la discusión en torno a diversas problemáticas relativas a la salud, la enfermedad y las prácticas del curar. Esta vez la invitación está a cargo de Córdoba, en esta ocasión, potenciaremos las facilidades materiales y logísticas que posee el CIECS y la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la UNC, con espacios y otras condiciones infraestructurales y de funcionalidad óptimas para la reunión proyectada . No es casual...

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), an independent research library in Philadelphia, PA, invites applications for new multi-year postdoctoral fellowships, as well as for one-year and short-term visiting fellowships in the history of science, medicine, technology, and industry. Two-Year 80/20 Postdoctoral Fellowships:  CHF is pleased to announce the launch of its new 80/20 postdoctoral fellowship program: these new fellowships reflect the Beckman Center’s commitment to providing career-launching fellowships for recent PhDs and its support for the career diversity initiatives of the American Historical Association and affiliated scholarly societies. The 80/20 postdoctoral fellowship program will allow the Beckman Center’s postdocs to build skills that can enhance ...