a School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, Education and Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, High St., Paisley Campus, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, United Kingdom b School of Computing, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, United Kingdom c School of Psychological Sciences and Health, Faculty of Huma...

Expanding on the recent call for a 'critical medical humanities' to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a 'speculative' orientation to such interventions in relation to some of the ontological commitments on which contemporary biomedical cultures rest. We argue that crucial to this task is an approach to ontology that treats it not as a questio...

pažuheš-nâme-ye târix-e ejtemâ’i va eqtesâdi (socio economic history studies) biannual journal volume 2, number 1, spring & summer 2013 concessionaire: institute for humanities and cultural studies (ihcs) director in charge & editor-in-chief: shahram yousefifar executive manager: azam riahi   editorial board ahmad badkoobeh hazaveh associate professor, university of tehran safoura boroumand ass...

Excerpt] Never abundant, financial support for the “academic humanities” is now scarce. How scarce it is, both in absolute and relative terms, and whether the humanities now confront particularly hard times, are the pressing questions. To piece together an answer, we ask first how much the government, foundations, and private donors provide for the humanities now compared to estimates John D’Ar...

This paper takes a broad perspective on the disciplinary formations represented by digital humanities and new media within the academic humanities. In doing this analysis, I show that the gap between digital humanities and new media, the subject of this panel, is the result of incompatible institutional functions. I consider today digital humanities and new media studies as two strategies of co...

Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2 Institute of Physical Education, Health and Leisure Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, 4 Brain and Consciousness Research Center, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 5 Institu...

The authors are grateful to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support. We would also like to thank Catherine Deri for excellent research assistance. We thank Adriana Lleras-Muney, Darren Lubotsky, participants at the NBER Health Care program meetings, AEAs, and UBC for helpful comments.

Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, Environment and Community Planning, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Austr...

behalf of Duke University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Address correspondence to Rachel A. Bowman, PhD, Durham Child Development and Behavioral Health Clinic, Duke University School of Medicine, 402 Tr...