History of the Human Sciences最新文献_第7页

Against well-being: A critique of positive psychology 反对幸福:对积极心理学的批判

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221114733

Luciano E. Sewaybricker, Gustavo M. Massola

引用次数: 0

For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT 支持还是反对脑科学分子化?控制论，跨学科，以及麻省理工学院神经科学研究项目的非程序化开端

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221116260

Youjung Shin

{"title":"For or against the molecularization of brain science?: Cybernetics, interdisciplinarity, and the unprogrammed beginning of the Neurosciences Research Program at MIT","authors":"Youjung Shin","doi":"10.1177/09526951221116260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221116260","url":null,"abstract":"It was no accident that the first neuroscience community, the Neurosciences Research Program (NRP), took shape in the 1960s at MIT, the birthplace of cybernetics. Francis O. Schmitt, known as the founding father of the NRP, was a famous biologist and an avid reader of cybernetics. Focusing on the intellectual and institutional context that Schmitt was situated in, this article unveils the way that the brain was conceptualized as a distinct object, requiring the launch of a new research community in the US. In doing so, this article moves beyond the dominant narratives on the triumph of molecularization of the brain at the beginning of neuroscience. Instead, it argues that what brought researchers together in the name of neuroscience was not just a molecule but an aspiration to develop biological theories of the brain/mind, which resonated with biologists in a postwar context and was materialized through support for basic research. The article highlights the tension over the computerization and molecularization of the brain, which shaped the interdisciplinary gathering of neuroscientists in the context of growing interest in basic research. Thereby, this article reveals the rise of theoretical concerns in brain science that reflect the distinct desires and concerns of biologists in the US at an intellectual and institutional level. By revisiting the launch of the NRP with a focus on Schmitt, the article sheds light on the historical contingencies in launching the new community as neuroscience in the US and their meaning for the locality and transiency of (inter)disciplinarity in brain science.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"103 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44516664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene 我从来没有答应过你一个玫瑰园。…当景观建筑成为人类世的实验室

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221103077

H. Steiner

{"title":"I never promised you a rose garden.… When landscape architecture becomes a laboratory for the Anthropocene","authors":"H. Steiner","doi":"10.1177/09526951221103077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221103077","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 2017, wildflower seeds were spread on a large, empty open space close to a motorway flyover just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. This was an effort to use non-mechanical methods to prepare the soil for an ‘urban forest’ to be established on the site, since the flowers’ roots would penetrate the ground and enable the planned new trees to settle. As a result, the site was transformed into a gorgeous meadow, and all summer long Copenhageners were invited to come and pick the flowers. In this article, I critically examine different aspects of this project – including the role of design, the perception of nature–culture relationships, climate change, and flower-picking as an event – in relation to my personal experience of visiting this meadow both on-site and on social media. The different temporalities that clash at the site give rise to conflicting interpretations, and I suggest that the meadow can be seen as a living plant archive of the Anthropocene, both physically and digitally. In doing so, I introduce and critique key conceptual pairs, including archive/death and bloom/decay, suggested by Lee Edelman’s queer cross-reading of Jacques Derrida’s ‘Archive Fever’ and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I thereby contrast flower motifs pertaining to the cycles of blooming, decay, and nature’s (failed) eternal return in the meadow with the expansive futurity of the digitally mediated archive.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"178 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47860702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory 家族图表是如何变成孟德尔式的:家谱内容的变化及其对遗传学理论巩固的影响

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221107558

Amir Teicher

{"title":"How family charts became Mendelian: The changing content of pedigrees and its impact on the consolidation of genetic theory","authors":"Amir Teicher","doi":"10.1177/09526951221107558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221107558","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a close examination of a small selection of pedigrees taken from German Mendelian and eugenic scholarship of the 1920s and 1930s. It examines the procedures that became customary for presenting data on human inherited pathologies, as well as the frequent changes in the information content of those charts. Relevant biographical and genealogical data was removed, and important indications regarding the diagnostic methods applied by the investigating scholar were lost, as soon as a pedigree was charted or reproduced. Data on healthy individuals was condensed, leading to an emphasis on the hereditary burden of pathological traits. At times, healthy individuals were entirely omitted, as were exogenous martial partners. These modifications paved the way for further theoretical amendments, including the addition of ‘carrier’ status to chosen individuals along the pedigree. With this addition, these pedigrees changed their ontological status, from empirical records of human reproduction to partially hypothetical illustrations of Mendelian theory itself. This process was complemented by the representation of theoretical genetic models in the format of a human pedigree. A comparison to practices of charting pedigrees still common today suggests that the processes hereby revealed are far from exceptional. In line with the ideas put forward by Ludwik Fleck, they are interpreted as germane to the way scientific ideas are communicated and propagated and to the scientific culture of genetics. The article also offers a refinement to Fleck’s analysis of textbook construction, which highlights the extent to which textbook examples differ from the original data on which they are based.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45774735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems 罪的体现:牧师精神病学家Asser Stenbäck和人类问题的心身方法

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-11 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221101450

Eve-Riina Hyrkäs

{"title":"Sin embodied: Priest-psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the psychosomatic approach to human problems","authors":"Eve-Riina Hyrkäs","doi":"10.1177/09526951221101450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221101450","url":null,"abstract":"Combining theological and medical perspectives is indispensable for the historical study of the interconnections between mind, body, and soul. This article explores these relations through the history of Finnish psychosomatic medicine, and uses published and archival materials to examine the intellectual biography of the Finland-Swedish theologian turned psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck (1913–2006). Stenbäck's career, which evolved from priesthood to psychiatry and politics, reveals a great deal about the tensions between religion and medicine, the spiritual and scientific groups that impinged upon psychosomatic medicine, and ideas on how health and Christian morality were interconnected. The biographical approach is adopted to unearth the values encoded in medical concepts, and through this, to point towards another, underexplored dimension of the health–religion relationship. In addition to their emotional aspect, religious doctrines are intended to organise life and give it meaning. Stenbäck's ideas tied these experiential and normative spheres together by defending an irrationalist substratum of the world in the secular age of medicine. His work illustrates how the inner experience of faith can become both medically and politically purposive. It is worth combining these perspectives in historical research as well in order to better understand how the theological, medical, and political worlds are in dialogue when it comes to human problems.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"31 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42559788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective 诺伯特·埃利亚斯社会学中的宗教与文明：长期视角下的幻想与现实平衡

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-11 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221094677

A. Linklater

{"title":"Religion and civilization in the sociology of Norbert Elias: Fantasy–reality balances in long-term perspective","authors":"A. Linklater","doi":"10.1177/09526951221094677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951221094677","url":null,"abstract":"Many sociologists have drawn attention to the puzzling absence of a detailed discussion of religion in Elias’s investigation of the European civilizing process. Elias did not develop a sociology of religion, but he did not overlook the importance of beliefs in the ‘spirit world’ in the history of human societies. In his writings such convictions were described as fantasy images that could be contrasted with ‘reality-congruent’ knowledge claims. Elias placed fantasy–reality balances, whether religious or secular, at the centre of the analysis of how societies have dealt with collective fears that arise in response to largely uncontrolled conditions. He located religious orientations within a broader framework of analysis regarding fantasy–reality balances in the first human groups and in current state-organized societies. Elias stressed how balances changed in ‘civilized’ societies with the rise of the natural sciences. But his writings emphasized the continuing influence of fantasy images in technologically sophisticated societies, particularly in the context of national and international power struggles. His analysis of how fantasy images acquired considerable influence under conditions of fear is important for studies of social responses to global challenges including climate change. Connections with Weber’s sociology of religion point the way to theoretically informed empirical research on balances between fantasy and reality-congruence in a tumultuous and unpredictable era.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"56 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46049349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social 心理界面的难题:论连接生物与社会的问题

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/09526951211070503

J. Fletcher, R. Birk

{"title":"The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social","authors":"J. Fletcher, R. Birk","doi":"10.1177/09526951211070503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211070503","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we consider how certain types of contemporary biosocial psychiatric research conceptualise and explicate biology-social relations. We compare the historic biopsychosocial model to recent examples of social defeat research on schizophrenia and cultural neuroscience work on affective disorders. This comparison reveals how the contemporary turn towards the ‘biosocial’ within psychiatric research relies upon ideas of the psychological as an interface. This is problematic because psychological notions of ‘experience’ are used as the central mechanics of biosocial processes, but lack any meaningful engagement with considerable debates within psychology and cognitive science about what the mind, and indeed the psychological, actually is, its relationship to social life, and how we should study it. The psychological interface is therefore vital to these biosocial hypotheses but is remarkably underdeveloped in comparison to its biological and sociological components. We argue that biosocial psychiatric research could gain a great deal from engaging with contemporary theorisations of experience and being more critical of vague appeals to psychological phenomena.","PeriodicalId":50403,"journal":{"name":"History of the Human Sciences","volume":"35 1","pages":"317 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41468013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s 土耳其的种族人类学与科学知识形成中的跨国纠缠:Seniha Tunakan的学术轨迹，1930 - 1970

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-26 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221096252

N. Maksudyan

引用次数: 1

Mind and knowledge in the early thought of Franz Boas, 1887–1904 博厄斯早期思想中的心灵与知识，1887-1904

IF 0.9 2区历史学

History of the Human Sciences Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/09526951221091137

Valentina Mann

引用次数: 0

Criticism as self-analysis 作为自我分析的批评