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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

AHP readers may be interested in a new book The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century by Alex Csiszar. The book is described as follows: Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2020 6:09 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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History of Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2020-2021

The journal History of the Human Sciences is now accepting entries for its 2020-2021 Early Career Prize. Full Prize details can be found here. History of the Human Sciences– the international journal of peer-reviewed research, which provides the leading...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2020 5:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers: A comparative historical study of values in addiction science

AHP readers may be interested in a forthcoming piece in History of the Human Sciences now available online (open access): “Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers: A comparative historical study of values in addiction science,”...

Published Wed, Sep 23 2020 7:34 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Empire of Depression: A New History

AHP readers will be interested in a new book by Jonathan Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression: A New History. The book is described as: When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2020 8:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France

AHP readers may be interested in a new book: Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France by Jessie Hewitt. As part of The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook edition this book is available...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2020 5:14 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue on Social Borrowings and Biological Appropriations

Several articles in the October 2020 issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences may be of interest to AHP readers. The articles are part of a Special Issue on Social...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 2:55 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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CCHP’s Psychology Film Club

AHP readers may be interested in a Psychology Film Club organized by the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology (CCHP). The club has a couple of events coming up this fall. As part of the club, everyone watches a film ahead of time and then the...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 6:56 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Fall issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología

The Fall issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología is now online. Full titles, authors, and English abstracts follow below: 1. Bernardo Houssay, Horacio Rimoldi y la formación de investigadores en Psicología: Una bisagra entre CONICET y las Universidades...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 6:02 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming in HHS: Hormones, Cognitive Enhancement, Handedness, ‘Normal’

Several pieces forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences may be of interest to AHP readers. Full details below. “‘The Revolution is to the human mind what the African sun is to vegetation’: Revolution, heat, and the normal school project,”...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 5:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Tour Wilhelm Wundt’s House Now!

An update to our post from last year about efforts to save Wilhelm Wundt’s house near Leipzig: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Wundt’s death in August a virtual 360° Tour of the house was produced, as well as a short film of the...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:59 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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New Isis: The Unmusical Ear, Normal Child Development on Film

The September 2020 issue of Isis includes two articles of interest to AHP readers. Full details below. “The Unmusical Ear: Georg Simon Ohm and the Mathematical Analysis of Sound,” Melle Jan Kromhout. Abstract: This essay presents a detailed...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:33 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Book Forum: Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, by Cathy Gere

AHP readers may be interested in a Book Forum, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, dedicated to Cathy Gere’s recent Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:14 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Psychologist: “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé”

AHP readers may be interested in a piece in the September 2020 issue of the British Psychological Society’s The Psychologist magazine, “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé” by Rabbi David Ariel Sher. As Sher writes, Perhaps the...

Published Thu, Sep 17 2020 9:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

AHP readers may be interested in a soon-to-be-released book, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. The book is described as follows: Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2020 9:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming in History of Human Sciences: The Psychosocial Dreamer, French Structural Anthropology

Two articles forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences, now available online, may interest AHP readers. “A ‘commonsense’ psychoanalysis: Listening to the psychosocial dreamer in interwar Glasgow psychiatry,” Sarah Phelan. Abstract: This...

Published Fri, Sep 11 2020 3:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

History of Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2020-2021

Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers: A comparative historical study of values in addiction science

The Empire of Depression: A New History

Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France

Special Issue on Social Borrowings and Biological Appropriations

CCHP’s Psychology Film Club

Fall issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología

Forthcoming in HHS: Hormones, Cognitive Enhancement, Handedness, ‘Normal’

Tour Wilhelm Wundt’s House Now!

New Isis: The Unmusical Ear, Normal Child Development on Film

Book Forum: Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, by Cathy Gere

The Psychologist: “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé”

Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

Forthcoming in History of Human Sciences: The Psychosocial Dreamer, French Structural Anthropology