The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences

1. A History of Self-Esteem: From a Just Honoring to a Social Vaccine

   • Alan F. Collins, George Turner, Susan Condor

2. Anatomy: Representations of the Body in Two and Three Dimensions

   • Anna Maerker

3. Anthropology, the Environment, and Environmental Crisis

   • María A. Guzmán-Gallegos, Esben Leifsen

4. Antipsychiatry: The Mid-twentieth Century Era (1960–1980)

   • Allan Beveridge

5. Assessing Ethnographic Representations of Micronesia Under the Japanese Administration

   • Shingo Iitaka

6. Asylums and Alienists: The Institutional Foundations of Psychiatry, 1760–1914

   • David Wright

7. Before Fieldwork: Textual and Visual Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples and the Emergence of World Ethnography in Hungary in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries

   • Ildikó S. Kristóf

8. Boasian Cultural Anthropologists, Interdisciplinary Initiatives, and the Making of Personality and Culture during the Interwar Years

   • Dennis Bryson

9. Center and Periphery: Anthropological Theory and National Identity in Portuguese Ethnography

   • João Leal

10. Children as Psychological Objects: A History of Psychological Research of Child Development in Hungary

    • Zsuzsanna Vajda

11. Classical Political Economy

    • Heinz D. Kurz

12. Collective Memory and Historical Sociology

    • Joanna Wawrzyniak

13. Colonial and Transcultural Psychiatries: What We Learn From History

    • Sloan Mahone

14. Colonialism and Its Knowledges

    • Sujata Patel

15. Diltheyan Understanding and Contextual Orientation in the Human Sciences

    • Rudolf Makkreel

16. Durkheimian Revolution in Understanding Morality: Socially Created, Scientifically Grasped

    • Raquel Weiss

17. Early Child Psychiatry in Britain

    • Nicola Sugden

18. Economic Anthropology in View of the Global Financial Crisis

    • Timothy Heffernan

19. Feminine Hunger: A Brief History of Women’s Food Restriction Practices in the West

    • Natalie Jovanovski

20. Forensic Psychiatry: Human Science in the Borderlands Between Crime and Madness

    • Eric J. Engstrom

The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences offers a uniquely comprehensive and global overview of the evolution of ideas, concepts and policies within the human sciences. Drawn from histories of the social and psychological sciences, anthropology, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas, this collection analyses the health and welfare of populations, evidence of the changing nature of our local communities, cities, societies or global movements, and studies the way our humanness or ‘human nature’ undergoes shifts because of broader technological shifts or patterns of living. This Handbook serves as an authoritative reference to a vast source of representative scholarly work in interdisciplinary fields.  a means of understanding patterns of social change and the conduct of institutions, as well as the histories of these ‘ways of knowing’ probe the contexts, circumstances and conditions which underpin continuity and change in the way we count, analyse and understand ourselves in our different social worlds. It reflects a critical scholarly interest in both traditional and emerging concerns on the relations between the biological and social sciences, and between these and changes and continuities in societies and conducts, as 21^st century research moves into new intellectual and geographic territories, more diverse fields and global problematics.

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• Critique and the history of theory
• History and Sociology of Knowledge
• Histories of legal theory
• Governing Individuals and Societies in the contemporary world
• History of science and cultural hegemony
• Anthropology, ethnography and ethnology
• Social histories of knowledge
• The Sociology of crowds
• Human Sciences and the History of Psychiatry
• Identity, constructing human and social subjects
• Contextual factors of the civilising process

• Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

  David McCallum

Dr. David McCallum is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He has held ongoing positions in Australian universities since 1976 and invited to positions in international settings that focus on the history of human sciences, including the University of London, the University of Bologna, the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University and as Pemberton Fellow, University College Durham. He has won a major research grant to investigate policy and practice in the identification of psychopathy in psychiatric and psychological practice in Australia and UK, which has continued uninterrupted over three decades.