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News and Notes: Conferences
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: NEWS AND NOTES Source Type: research

ESHHS Conference, July 12 –14, 2017, in collaboration with SISS, University of Bari Aldo Moro
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: MISCELLANEOUS Source Type: research

Fhhs news
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: MISCELLANEOUS Source Type: research

Report of the 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David K. Robinson Tags: MISCELLANEOUS Source Type: research

Jessica Riskin. The restless clock: A history of the centuries ‐long argument over what makes living things tick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. 548 pp. ISBN‐13:978‐0‐226‐30292‐8 (cloth); 13:978‐0‐226‐30308‐6 (e‐book).
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roger Smith Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Sabine Arnaud. On hysteria: The invention of a medical category between 1670 & 1820. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN: 978 ‐0‐226‐27554‐3.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kathryn Segesser Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

William Davies. The happiness industry: How the government and big business sold us well ‐being. (London, England: Verso, 2016). 314 pp.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Patric Plesa Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Natalia Priego. Positivism, science, and “The Scientists” in porfirian Mexico. A reappraisal. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. ISSBN: 978‐1‐78138‐256‐1.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andres Rios ‐Molina Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Paul Erickson. The world the game theorists made. Review (2015). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, for Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Leonard Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Saulo de Freitas Araujo. Wundt and the philosophical foundations of psychology. A reappraisal. New York: Springer, 2016. 254 pp. $129 (hardcover). ISBN 978 ‐3‐319‐26636‐7.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chiara Russo Krauss Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Peter Simonson, David W. Park. The international history of communication study. New York: Routledge, 2016. 527pp. $44.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781138846036.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sue Curry Jansen Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Jon Mills. Inventing God: Psychology of belief and the rise of secular spirituality. New York: Routledge, 2017. 244 pp. $52.95 (paper). ISBN: 978 ‐1‐138‐19575‐2.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert C. Fuller Tags: BOOK REVIEWS Source Type: research

In between mental evolution and unconscious memory: Lamarckism, Darwinism, and professionalism in late Victorian Britain
Abstract In 1884 Samuel Butler published a collection of essays entitled Remarks on George Romanes’ Mental Evolution, where he attempted to show how Romanes’ idea of mental evolution presented similarities with his theory of unconscious memory. By looking at Romanes’ work through Butler’s writing, this article will reevaluate some aspects of their works regarding the complex debate about memory, heredity, and instinct. This paper will explore the main differences and similarities between Romanes’ science and Butler’s writing on science both in terms of their ideas and contents. It will then look into their diff...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - September 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cristiano Turbil Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Bringing radical behaviorism to revolutionary Brazil and back: Fred Keller's Personalized System of Instruction and Cold War engineering education
This study also presents us with an opportunity to test Knorr Cetina's conjecture about the possible use of a focus on epistemic cultures in addressing a classic problem in the sociology of science, namely unpacking the relationship between knowledge and its social context. Ultimately, however, this study complements another historical case study in applied behavioral analysis, where a difference in outcome helps to lay out the range of possible shifts in the epistemic commitments of radical behaviorists who entered different domains of application. The case study also has some practical implications for those creating dis...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - September 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Atsushi Akera Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Richard Gilbert Review. Skinner's quests Toronto: Borden House Press, 2016, pp. 472.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David C. Devonis Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research