History of the Human Sciences Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

History of the Human Sciences

'Who were the British physical scientists interested in psychical investigation?' Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira reviews Richard Noakes' Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain #HistMed #occult https://t.co/6uF9B3Jxbm https://t.co/vOyAjOACwo

History of the Human Sciences

Online first: 'From the margins to the NICE guidelines: British clinical psychology and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, 1982–2002' by David J Harper and Sebastian Townsend https://t.co/8TkaHeAhTT

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Alfred Freeborn reviews Jürgen Renn's The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene "perhaps what our present needs more than revolutions is intellectual common ground" https://t.co/9vxKxRarnF

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Alexander Luria was 'not concerned with describing symptoms in isolation from a person’s whole personality' Lizaveta Zeldzina reviews H Proctor's Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History https://t.co/loNDdBxDpI

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Michael Pettit reviews Heather Love's Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory Underdogs explores "why queer theorists and social psychologists have been so drawn to affect as a meta-theory... despite their very different political commitments." https://t.co/j9J062K5p1 https://t.co/hsK2embmzw

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Michael C Behrent reviews Cynthia L. Haven's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard "a rich and evocative account... [Haven] suggests that Girard represents, if not an exemplary life, at least an exemplary mind" https://t.co/ys25wLvODj https://t.co/By4Jo493Tn

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Open access: 'Cybernetics in the Republic' @mjkennerly on Norbert Wiener's decision not to explicitly connect cybernetics to Plato https://t.co/7xA0bmRLBL

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Online first: Nikola Regent, 'Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty' "showing the difficulty of applying contextualism in practice, by the very founder of this approach in the history of ideas" https://t.co/x6j4bWBiqX https://t.co/J80pbZHuaX

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Caroline Warman, '"The Revolution is to the human mind what the African sun is to vegetation": Revolution, heat, and the normal school project' (part of the forthcoming ‘Normality: A Collection of Essays’ Special Issue. Guest Editors: Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens) https://t.co/9FOOYFCTBr

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Ahlam Rahal reviews On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing by Owen Whooley #histmed #medhum https://t.co/K0BkjaEaZY https://t.co/98wgd4Owht