As mentioned in a recent post on the excellent H-Madness, the most recent issue of Gesnerus – the Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences – includes the review essay “Beyond the Normal and the Pathological: Recent Literature on Georges Canguilhem” by Stefanos Geroulanos.
Geroulanos, it is worth mentioning, has also collaborated with …
In 2009 Norway’s Holberg International Memorial Prize was awarded to Ian Hacking. Given each year for “outstanding scholarly work in the fields of the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology,” the Holberg Prize has been awarded to scholars like Julia Kristeva, Jürgen Habermas, and Frederic Jameson. There’s a nice website with links to …
Histoire des Amphétamines
Pascal Nouvel
Presses Universitaires de France, 2009
320 pages
€ 19.00 (Paperback)
I’ve written here in the past about the National Humanities Center’s On the Human Forum–a site meant to foster discussion about what “the human” has or is coming to mean in the context of contemporary social and technoscientific developments. The topic of this summer’s issue of Daedalus is “On Being Human” and it is specifically framed as …
Over at Metapsychology Online Reviews, Ian James Kidd writes a generally positive review of Sandra Harding’s most recent book – Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (Duke UP, 2008). An excerpt from the review:
“Drawing upon contemporary literature in the history and philosophy of science, Harding argues that the alleged ‘objectivity’ of the sciences has for too long disguised
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Chris Kelty at Savage Minds directs our attention to an excellent discussion on commercial genome-reading hosted by the National Humanities Center’s On the Human project. An excellent post by Ian Hacking on genome reading services offered by companies like 23andMe, receives commentary from Paul Rabinow, Gisli Palsson, Norton Wise and others. There is also a follow-up post…