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Was Thomas Hobbes the first biopolitical thinker? 托马斯·霍布斯是第一位生命政治思想家吗?

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-19 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231159260

Samuel Lindholm

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Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown. 在大众观察站和米德尔敦存档COVID-19大流行。

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231152139

Nick Clarke, Clive Barnett

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Seeing like an epidemiologist? Mobilising people against COVID-19. 像流行病学家一样看待问题?动员人民抗击COVID-19。

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231170574

Nick Clarke, Clive Barnett

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Rupture, repetition, and new rhythms for pandemic times: Mass Observation, everyday life, and COVID-19. 大流行时期的断裂、重复和新节奏:群众观察、日常生活和COVID-19。

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221133983

Dawn Lyon, Rebecca Coleman

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Time shifts: Place, belonging, and future orientation in pandemic everyday life. 时间转移:流行病日常生活中的地点、归属和未来方向。

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221139377

Patrick Collier, James J Connolly

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'There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence': Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections. “没有比瘟疫更壮观的了”:大众观察组织COVID-19藏品中描绘的大流行。

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221134002

Annebella Pollen

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Contrary to reason: Documentary film-making and alternative psychotherapies 与理性相反:纪录片制作和另类心理疗法

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231155058

Des O’Rawe

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Yeast, coal, and straw: J. B. S. Haldane's vision for the future of science and synthetic food 酵母、煤和稻草:J. B. S.霍尔丹对未来科学和合成食品的展望

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231156729

M. Holmes

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Arguments with fictional philosophers: Spengler's Kant and the conceptual foundations of Spengler's early philosophy of history 与虚构哲学家的争论：斯宾格勒的康德与斯宾格勒早期历史哲学的概念基础

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI: 10.1177/09526951231156040

G. Swer

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Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s) 精神病人记录下的精神分析实践:弗洛伊德启发的心理治疗的难以捉摸的历史(斯特拉斯堡，1940 - 1970)

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History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221148638

F. Serina

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