Somatosphere turns five years old this month and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who’s helped to develop and grow this site over the years: our dedicated editorial collective and team of over forty regular contributors, our web designer Maarten Ottens, the guest contributors (almost 100 of them) who have written for the site, and …
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 …