Following enthusiastic responses to our first guest post (on the
reception of Isaac Newton’s unorthodox works, by Kees-Jan Schilt at the
Newton Project), I am pleased to invite future contributions to
‘Forbidden Histories’ (http://forbiddenhistories.wordpress.com), a
history of science and medicine blog on the historiography of science
and the ‘miraculous’.
Contributions are welcome from historians of science and medicine at all
stages of their careers, who would like to discuss their work on the
history and historiography of astrology, alchemy, fascination,
witchcraft, ghosts and hauntings, miraculous healings, mesmerism,
vitalism, alternative medicine, spiritualism, psychical research and
related topics.
Guest posts should be concise (not exceeding two A4 pages), written in a
manner accessible to non-specialists, and address historiographical
issues related to functions of popular science and disciplinary history
as knowledge management (the blog’s central concerns as laid out at
http://forbiddenhistories.wordpress.com/welcome).
To discuss possible contributions, please email me at [log in to unmask]
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Andreas Sommer, PhD
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/sommer.html
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