A group of historians and philosophers of science at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology have recently launched a collaborative blog called “The Bubble Chamber.” As they explain in one of their introductory posts, the bubble chamber was chosen partly as a metaphor or model for the kind of …
First of all, congratulations to Daniel Lende and Greg Downey whose excellent Neuroanthropology blog has just made the move to a new science blogging platform: PLoS Blogs. This new venture, under the auspices of the Public Library of Science — which has been in the forefront of developing open-access journals in science and medicine — includes a number of …
Colonial Psychiatry Hub is a recently launched blog written by a DPhil student at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, whose research “concerns the practice of psychiatry in Church Missionary Society hospitals in Uganda, 1897-1944.” While it has only been up for a number of months, the site has great potential to fulfill on its …
LSE’s BIOS Centre for the study of bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology and society seems to be in the process of updating its web presence. Two new features are a blog — which will feature a number of articles and viewpoints on a series of topics (the first is security and scientific technology), and a series of working papers available free …