With the school year approaching, many academic blogs have featured posts about teaching. We’ve run a few of these over the past years, including a number of syllabi related to medical anthropology. You can see them all by clicking on the “Teaching Resources” category in the sidebar, but I’ve also gathered the best of them here — …
Tag Archives: History
Georges Canguilhem, Writings on Medicine
Our own Todd Meyers and Stefanos Geroulanos have translated and edited an exciting new collection of short essays by Georges Canguilhem. Writings on Medicine includes the essays, “The Idea of Nature in Medical Theory and Practice,” “Diseases,” “Health: Popular Concept and Philosophical Question,” “Is a Pedagogy of Health Possible?” and “The Problem of Regulation in the Organism and in Society,” …
Welcome to Transcriptions!
Somatosphere is happy to announce Transcriptions, a new online forum on the critical intersections of HIV/AIDS, global health, and the social sciences. Transcriptions seeks to trace evolving developments in HIV science and global health programs; connect social scientists, scholars in the humanities, and biomedical and public health researchers; and encourage critical engagement with methodological, ethical, and philosophical questions on …
Talking Brains: Problems and Perspectives of the Neurosciences
The lectures from yet another conference on neuroscience/culture are available online. The conference “Talking Brains: Problems and Perspectives of the Neurosciences,” took place on December 3 and 4, 2010 at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Below I reproduce the titles and abstracts of the talks, along with links to the audio recordings. To hear the talks, press the …
CfP: History of neurosciences and social and behavioural sciences conference
Below is a second call for papers for a joint, interdisciplinary conference that looks highly interesting:
The first Joint Conference of Cheiron (The international Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences) and The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) will be held in Calgary / Banff (Canada). The main conference will be from June …
Conference – European Conceptions of “Life”: Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 1850-1950
The Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History and?the Remarque Institute at New York University? present a conference in European intellectual history:?
European Conceptions of ‘Life’: Biology, Psychology, Philosophy 1850-1950
Friday, December 10, 2010
Perched between different conceptions and practices of the life sciences, philosophy, historical inquiry and political purpose, the concept of life emerged in the later nineteenth century as …