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History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social · 2d
30 January 2026 deadline!

History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26

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History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26

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January 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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30 January 2026 deadline!

History of the Human Sciences Early Career Prize 2025–26

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Early Career Prize 2025–26: History of the Human Sciences
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January 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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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
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history
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-U...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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/...
January 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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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:
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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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
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Making space for ‘THOSE OTHERS’: The Q Camps Committee's cross-disciplinary exploration of disturbance and rehabilitation in 1930s Britain - David W. Jones, Craig Fees, 2025
This article explores the pioneering rehabilitative work of the Q Camps Committee's Hawkspur Camp (1936–1941), which supported young men deemed at risk of ...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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"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

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November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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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, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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/...
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives - Hannah Blythe, Sarah Marks, 2025
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivor...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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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

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How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025
Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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

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How free is free time? Mental hygiene and self-governance between work and leisure in the German Democratic Republic, 1960–1990 - Viola Balz, 2025
Public health education in the German Democratic Republic was greatly concerned with proper leisure-time behaviour. In this article, the author asks to what ext...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Life, care, and the medical humanities: An interview with Frédéric Worms (Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and a philosopher of care)

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October 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain

Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025
In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain

Ann H Kelly and Diliara Valeeva
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The means and models of malaria eradication: Untangling the mosquito ovary across the Iron Curtain - Ann H Kelly, Diliara Valeeva, 2025
In the early 1960s, Tatjana Sergeevna Detinova, a preeminent Soviet entomologist, attempted to assist the WHO’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) by off...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history:

Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench

(Open Access)
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The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history - Neil Vickers, Céline Lefève, Patrick ffrench, 2025
This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolv...
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October 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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/...
Of modern mediums and susceptible psychologists, and of things we do not know - Jaap Bos, 2025
Research into psychical phenomena such as telepathy and spiritualism in the 19th century was so much hampered by fraudulent mediumship that researchers and the ...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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On capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Capitalism and the temporalities of industrial location theory: Liberalism to Fordism - Parker Everett, 2025
Industrial location theory (ILT) attempted to grasp transformations in capitalist space, particularly the growth, transformation, and decline of industrial urba...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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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
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Historians of the Human Sciences! Early Career Prize now open for entrants - see below for details #hstm
felicitycallard.bsky.social Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Oct 20
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.

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October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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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/...
On the relation between medicine and medical humanities: Negotiating recognition and influencing practice - Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, 2025
Should medical humanities lie in an instrumental relation to medicine, assisting healthcare practitioners to conduct their work in more humane ways? Or should i...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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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...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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
hanblythe.bsky.social Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social · Jun 27
A really interesting new article by @whc-grace.bsky.social is out in History of the Human Sciences

Rehabilitation at Roffey Park: Management and psychiatry in occupational mental health, 1943–83

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July 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Yes, “How autism became autism” by Bonnie Evans published in 2013 in @histhum.bsky.social is a great article!
ctimmermann.bsky.social Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · Sep 23
I recommend this article, which provides an excellent introduction to the history both of the term autism and the ways in which the label has been applied to a changing set of human characteristics, in line with changing scientific and diagnostic approaches.

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How autism became autism - Bonnie Evans, 2013
This article argues that the meaning of the word ‘autism’ experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in e...
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October 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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...
Freud in Cambridge: An institutional romance? - Jessica Dubow, 2022
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July 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM