Internet Resources in the History of the Human Sciences

European Society for the History of the Human Sciences

Internet Resources

History of Science, Medicine, & Technology

• WWW Virtual Library in the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine. Contains an unbelievable number of links.
• Science as Culture (edited by Robert M. Young)
• On-line Exhibit: Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe focuses on the hand as a meeting place of matter, mind, and spirit. More than eighty images, dating primarily from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, concern the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge from such diverse realms as anatomy, psychology, mathematics, music, rhetoric, religion, palmistry, and alchemy. Organized by the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College.
• The History of Race in Science by Evelynn Hammonds and others at MIT.
• Women in Social Science

History of Anthropology

• History of Anthropology Newsletter Homepage. Contains archived copies of Newsletters.
• National Anthropological Archives, part of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
• Doug Hume's Anthropological Niche. Contains a comprehensive and growing record about the controversy around the activities of the anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, who, in the 1950s, travelled among the Yanomami Indians in the Amazon and who, in 1968, arranged to have a measles vaccine administered to them which caused a measles epidemic, decimating the Indian population. This controversy started after Patrick Tierny alleged, in his book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon (Norton: 2000).

History of Economics

• Economic History Services.
• History of Economics. The history of economics page provides online resources for teaching, scholarship, and research in the history of economics.
• History of Economics Internet References. Maintained by Bert Mosselmans, Belgium.
• The McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought. Extensive resources on important individuals in the history of economics.
• The History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Roy Glyn Davies.

History of Sociology

• Ed Stephan's Timeline of Sociology
• Auguste Comte and Positivism

History of Psychology

• Classics in the History of Psychology Contains a great number of psychology's founding texts.
• History & Philosophy of Psychology Web Resources, including many references to sites dedicated to specific individuals. By Christopher Green, York University.
• PsychREF (tm): Resources in Psychology on the Internet.
• Mind/Body Exhibit by Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College.
• Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914:  Historical Essays. Series edited by Robert H. Wozniak.
• Museum of the History of Psychological Experimentation by Edward J. Haupt and Thomas B. Perera.
• Human Nature. Web-site with extensive archives and other resources.
• George's Page: about George Herbert Mead: the Mead Project Web-site.
• History of Psychology Web-site at the University of Dayton, Oh. Contains information about psychologists and the history of psychology departments.
• Sir Francis Galton, FRC, 1822-1911. A web-site devoted to Francis Galton.
• Mollie Fancher: The Brooklyn Enigma. A case of multiple personality disorder in 19th century Brooklyn. By Anthony A. Walsh, Salve Regina University.

History of Biology

• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement. DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
• MendelWeb. By Roger B. Blumberg. On the history of Mendel's paper on heredity.
• History of Biology Web-pages by Michael R. Dietrich, Dartmouth College.
• Darwin and Darwinism (online journal, Evolutionary Psychology, editors Robert M. Young and Ian Pitchford)

History of Medicine

• On-line Exhibit: A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine to 1800, an online exhibition organized by the New York Academy of Medicine, about how physicians and philosophers reacted to monstrosities, monsters, and abnormalities in the natural world.
• NIH Museum of Medical Research
• The Anesthesia History Files, part of the website of the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine.
• The History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links by Patricia E. Gallagher and Stephen J. Greenberg.
• The History of Biomedicine through the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Images from the History of the US Public Health Service through the National Library of Medicine.
• Bad Blood: The Troubling Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, through the University of Virginia.
• The Living City. A digital library initiative intended to capture the experience of life, health, and urban transformation during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I of New York City.
• The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. Contains finding aids and Images from the History of Medicine database.
• The History of Phrenology on the Web, by John van Wyhe, University of Cambridge.

History of the Neurosciences

• Neuroscience History resources.
• Milestones in Neuroscience Research (bibliography, timeline, links; edited by E.H. Chudler)
• The Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery.
• Founders of neurology: A picture gallery. From the Dept. of Neurology, University of Chicago.
• The History of Psychosurgery by Renato M.E. Sabbatini. With many illustrations.
• The Phineas Gage Information Page. By Malcolm MacMillan, who wrote the definite account of the Gage Case, An Odd Kind of Fame.

History of Psychiatry

• The Freud Museum of London.
• The Freud Museum in Vienna, in English or German. Contains clips of Freud's home movies and two audio recordings of his voice.
• Freud Net through the Abraham A. Brill Library at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
• The burying Freud homepage. Contains a great number of essays generated during the Freud wars.

Societies and Associations

History of Science, Technology, & Medicine

• European Society of Science and Technology Studies.
• History of Science Society. Includes a guide to graduate study in the history of science in North America.
• Forum for the History of Human Science (FHHS), an interest group within the History of Science Society.
• International History of Philosophy of Science Society.
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.
• British Society for the History of Science brings together people with a common interest in all aspects of the history of science.  Links to the British Journal for the History of Science and other resources.
• The European Guide to Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies. The Guide provides information on science and technology studies throughout Europe.

History of the Human Sciences

• Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
• The Forum for History of Human Science, an interest group within the History of Science Society.

History of Anthropology

• American Anthropological Association.
• The Royal Anthropological Institute (UK). Oldest anthropological organization in the world. Contains the Anthropology Index Online.

History of Sociology

• The History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

History of Political Science

• American Political Science Association (follow links: "About APSA" then "Organized Sections")
• International Political Science Association

History of Economics

• History of Economics Society.
• Economic History Association.
• The Cliometric Society.

History of Psychology

• The Society for the History of Psychology. .
• The History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. Annual meeting: Calgary, Alberta, June 9-10, 2001, following the meetings of the ISTP (see next link).
• International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Biannual meeting to be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. June 3-8, 2001.

History of Biology

• International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB).

History of the Neurosciences

• International Society for the History of the Neurosciences.

History of Psychiatry

• The European Association for the History of Psychiatry.

Academic Programs

History of Science

• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London
• Science and Technology Studies, University College London
• Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine & Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester
• Science and Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
• Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney

History of the Human Sciences

• Centre for the History of the Human Sciences, University of Durham, UK

History of Psychology

• Program in Theory and History of Psychology, Groningen University, The Netherlands

Journals

• Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences. ESHHS is formally affiliated with this journal.
• History of Psychology: The Official Journal of Division 26 (History of Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
• History of the Human Sciences.
• The Intellectual History Newsletter.
• History & Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History

Archives and Collections

• The Archives of Dutch Psychology. The web site is currently available only in Dutch, but an English version will be available in the near future. The Archives aim to collect, administer and provide information and documentation on the history and development of Dutch psychology. Over time impressive materials have been gathered including the personal papers of prominent Dutch psychologists, an extensive collection of psychological tests, audio-visual materials, and a large photograph collection. For more information email us.
• Rockefeller Archive Center.
• The History of American Psychology Archives at the University of Akron, Oh.
• The Linda Hall Library.The Linda Hall Library is one of the world's leading collections of science, engineering, and technology. With more than a million volumes, the collection dates from the fifteenth century to the present. Rare books dating from the fifteenth century offer a significant resource for most aspects of the history and philosophy of science and technology.
• Archives of the History of American Psychology in Akron, Oh.

Governmental Resources

USA & Canada

• Library of Congress
• National Archives and Record Administration (USA)
• Center for Electronic Records, (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA has updated the 'Title List: A Preliminary and Partial Listing of the Data Files in the National Archives and Records Administration.' 'The 'Title List' is current as of July 6, 1998, and now has entries for approximately 14,000 of the over 100,000 electronic records files in the custody of NARA. For more information contact: Theodore J. Hull, Archives Specialist, Center for Electronic Records, National Archives and Records Administration, (301) 713-6645
• National Archives of Canada

Europe