Please read and share and enjoy and discuss and cherish my long-gestating article in @histhum.bsky.social: ‘A treatise on all the bad habits of mankind’: Major Greenwood and the political economy of epidemiology in early 20th-century Britain doi.org/10.1177/0952...

“The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes”, by our editor Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social, was published today. Entirely OA www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate

❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate www.histhum.com/applications...

30 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *

30 January 2026 deadline! History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26 All details here: www.histhum.com/early-career... * Please repost *

Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève et Patrick Ffrench publient dans "History of the Human Sciences" un article présentant une analyse historique comparative du développement des humanités médicales aux États-Unis et en France. colhum.hypotheses.org/2099

John Forrester’s “If p, then what? Thinking in cases”, published in History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social in 1996 🧡 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Special issue of @histhum.bsky.social co-edited by me and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social is out! There’s an Intro and six further articles. Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Here’s our co-authored Intro: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain David W Jones and Craig Fees (OA) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hey that's us. "Thinking in Systems: Problems of Organization at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Society for General Systems Research, 1950-7," by Libby O'Neil in @histhum.bsky.social @sagepub.com ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve be co-editing a special issue of @histhum.bsky.social with @sarahvmarks.bsky.social on Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: historical perspectives Our Intro article is available now! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 Viola Balz Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 Viola Balz Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms (Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and a philosopher of care) Patrick ffrench and Céline Lefève journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms (Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and a philosopher of care) Patrick ffrench and Céline Lefève journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history: Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the relationship between psychical researchers and their mediums (later, parapsychologists and performing telepaths): 'Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know': Jaap Bos (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This critique of the Critical Medical Humanities is part of a forthcoming special issue on the medical humanities (past, present and future) in @histhum.bsky.social

Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm

An interrogation of “Critical Medical Humanities” by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed in ‘On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

Excited that my article on occupational psychiatry and management science at Roffey Park is out in History of the Human Sciences! Read if you're curious about how different 'mental health awareness' at work could have been... Thanks to editors @hanblythe.bsky.social and @sarahvmarks.bsky.social

Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article!

Jessica Dubow's review of Forrester/Cameron's Freud in Cambridge is part of article I'm trying to write. I love how she writes - as well as how she reads the institution of early 20C Cambridge Univ through the fantasy of the family romance @histhum.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Published this doi.org/10.1177/0952... at @histhum.bsky.social striving to fairly represent SSGAC’s apparent efforts to be ethical and progressive while pointing out contradictions. Feels like time wasted! How swiftly eugenics was unmasked under a ‘fair-wind’ far-right govt. The future looks grim.

Congratulations to Jonah Walters the winner of this year's ECR Prize! The winning article "The Taser in the Skinner box: Science fiction, aversive conditioning, and the paradigm of electric shock policing" will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal! 🎊🎊🎊

Review: Janina Klement on Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation by Martin Levy www.histhum.com/review-round...

“Viewpoint diversity” is a weapon with which to bludgeon universities and journals Nicolas Langlitz and Clemente de Althaus on (viewpoint) diversity and the US culture wars, which we published in @histhum.bsky.social, is really worth a read journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interview with Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival, co-editors of our April 2025 Special Issue ‘The material force of categories’. www.histhum.com/interview-th...

Just published: ‘Equality’ has been mobilised (in nuanced and less nuanced ways) to support the genomics of who ‘makes it’ economically and educationally, drawing long-fraught links between cognitive ability, class and, potentially, ‘ancestry’. doi.org/10.1177/0952...

"The feeling that citizens are no longer bound by collective projects, and in hard times, by a collective fate, is perhaps the biggest cultural sickness of all." Katie Joice reviews Danny Dorling's Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation www.histhum.com/review-seven...

Becka Hudson, 'Material pathologies: Caring for personality disorder in prison' in the latest issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

// History of the Human Sciences journal is now on BlueSky. Also: Early Career Prize deadline is 28 March 2025 //

Apply for History of the Human Sciences' Early Career Prize! Winning essays will be published in the journal and winners receive £250. Deadline 28 March 2025 📚📖 More details here: www.histhum.com/early-career...