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In the shadow of the tree: The diagrammatics of relatedness in genealogy, anthropology, and genetics as epistemic, cultural, and political practice 树影中：家谱学、人类学和遗传学中的亲缘关系图解作为认识论、文化和政治实践

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-21 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241261837

Marianne Sommer, Caroline Arni, Staffan Müller-Wille, Simon Teuscher

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Who reads Renan 谁读雷南

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241256522

Carolyn Steedman

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The specter of authenticity: Social science after the deconstruction of Romanticism 真实性的幽灵：解构浪漫主义之后的社会科学

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241245014

Gale A. Watts, D. Houtman

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On heritage pharmacology: Rethinking ‘heritage pathologies’ as tropes of care 遗产药理学：重新思考 "遗产病理学 "作为护理方法的作用

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241242402

Beverley Butler

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Low on the Kinsey scale: Homosexuality in Swedish and Finnish sex research, 1960s–1990s 金赛量表上的低分：瑞典和芬兰性研究中的同性恋，1960-1990 年代

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241245040

Riikka Taavetti

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The origins of film, psychology and the neurosciences 电影、心理学和神经科学的起源

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241244979

Bonnie Evans

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Finding modernity in England's past: Social anthropology and the remaking of social history in Britain, 1959–77* 在英国的过去中寻找现代性：社会人类学与英国社会史的重塑，1959-77 年*。

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241242327

Freddy Foks

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Mother-blaming revisited: Gender, cinematography, and infant research in the heyday of psychoanalysis. 重新审视母亲的指责：精神分析鼎盛时期的性别、电影摄影和婴儿研究

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231187556

Felix E Rietmann

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The visualization of autism: Filming children at the Maudsley Hospital, London, 1957–8 自闭症的可视化：拍摄伦敦莫兹利医院的儿童，1957-2008 年

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241238650

Janet Harbord

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Film, observation, and the mind 电影、观察和心灵

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1177/09526951241235800

Bonnie Evans, Janet Harbord

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