Pharmaceutical Historiography, ed. by A. BERMAN (Proceedings of a Colloquium sponsored by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy on the occasion of the Institute's 25th Anniversary, Madison, Wisconsin, 22-23 January, 1966), Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, 1967, pp. 145, $2.00. This volume deals with (a) George Urdang's concepts on the framework of ...

the absence of an obvious image from the quiddity of historiography text has led to difficulty and complexity in conceptualizing and theorizing within the domain of theoretical studies of history. this difficulty has been extended even in the identification of applicability of historiography text by the researchers in the domain of historiography. it seems that solving this problem is in need o...

The majority of historians agree that social and political reality significantly influences changes in historical thinking, and thereby the development of historical research. However, when we inquire after the mechanism or mechanisms regulating these influences, controversies appear. Differences in viewpoints result from the fact that the relationship between historiography and social life is ...

Historiography went throughout massive changes in 20th century, especially after the Second World War. Old political history was replaced, or at least challenged, by social and cultural histories, while historiography became increasingly open toward other social sciences and humanities. Historians started to be aware of other scholars� theorizing on many important questions, and the historians ...

In this paper I identify a tension between the two sets of works by Kuhn regarding the genesis of the "new historiography of science". In the first, it could be said that the change from the traditional to the new historiography is strictly endogenous (referring to internal causes or reasons). In the second, the change is predominantly exogenous. To address this question, I draw on a text that ...

“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and in particular on its potential connections with ethics. This essay draws on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including alle...