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| Forum for the History of Human Sciences | |
|---|---|
| Title | Forum for the History of Human Sciences |
| Discipline | History of science; History of medicine; Social history |
| Abbreviation | Forum Hist. Human Sci. |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1988–present |
| Issn | 0952-6951 |
Forum for the History of Human Sciences Forum for the History of Human Sciences is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the historical study of the human sciences with interdisciplinary engagement across history, philosophy, medicine, psychology and anthropology. Founded in 1988, the journal has appeared alongside publications such as History of Science Society, Isis (journal), Medical History (journal), Social Studies of Science, and British Journal for the History of Science in shaping debates connected to figures like Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Michel Foucault, William James, and Mary Ainsworth.
The journal was established in 1988 amidst contemporaneous developments at institutions including Wellcome Trust, University College London, King's College London, University of Oxford, and Cambridge University Press networks, and in conversation with meetings at venues such as the Royal Society and the British Academy. Early editorial leadership included scholars associated with projects on psychoanalysis, phrenology, intelligence testing, anthropology and clinical psychiatry, connecting research on Franz Brentano, Wilhelm Wundt, Karl Jaspers, Ernest Jones, and Adolf Meyer. Over subsequent decades the journal responded to historiographical shifts prompted by debates around biopolitics, eugenics, colonial medicine, gender studies, and transnational histories involving archives from Wellcome Collection, National Archives (UK), Smithsonian Institution, and Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The journal situates work on historical actors such as G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung, Anna O., Pierre Janet, and Alfred Binet within broader institutional contexts like Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, École Normale Supérieure, Max Planck Society, and Royal College of Physicians. It foregrounds approaches influenced by theorists and methodologies linked to Michel Foucault, Thomas Kuhn, Bruno Latour, E. H. Carr, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Dominique Lecourt, aiming to bridge archives in Wellcome Library, Gutenberg Museum, Library of Congress, and national repositories. The journal's remit includes histories of practice and theory related to psychiatry, developmental psychology, criminology, neurology, and social psychology, engaging with scholarship on Emil Kraepelin, John Bowlby, Hans Asperger, Lev Vygotsky, and Anna Freud.
The editorial board has historically included scholars affiliated with University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, London School of Economics, McGill University, and University of California, Berkeley, drawing on expertise comparable to that of editors at The Lancet, Nature History of Science, and American Historical Review. Governance arrangements reflect peer-review procedures used in journals associated with Modern Language Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Royal Historical Society. Advisory and editorial committees have encompassed specialists in archives such as Wellcome Collection, curators from British Museum, librarians from Bodleian Library, and historians linked to projects funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council.
Published quarterly by SAGE Publications, the journal issues research articles, review essays, forum pieces, and historiographical notes addressing topics from case studies on pharmaceutical industry histories linked to companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Roche to analyses of concepts associated with DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), ICD (International Classification of Diseases), and institutional histories of Maudsley Hospital and Bethlem Royal Hospital. Contributors have compared archival materials from the Royal College of Psychiatrists with correspondence housed at Wellcome Library and manuscripts located in collections of Columbia University and University of Chicago. Special issues have paralleled conferences at International Congress of Psychology, History of Science Society annual meeting, and symposia organized by American Psychiatric Association.
The journal is indexed in services comparable to Scopus, Web of Science, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and catalogues used by British Library, National Library of Medicine, and WorldCat. Citation patterns connect its articles to work published in Social Science History, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and monographs from presses such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, and Routledge. Its impact has been measured alongside metrics used by Eigenfactor, Journal Citation Reports, and institutional assessments by Research Excellence Framework.
Prominent contributors have included historians and theorists comparable to Geoffrey Cocks, Roy Porter, Andrew Scull, Patricia Fara, Allan Young, Nicholas Jewson, Charles Rosenberg, Vivian Nutton, Ian Hacking, Elizabeth Loftus, Dorothy Nelkin, and Sajay Kumar; topics have ranged from archival studies on Franz Fanon and Paul Broca to essays on eugenics controversies involving figures such as Francis Galton and institutions like Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Seminal articles addressed methodological debates in the historiography of psychiatry, case histories tied to Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot, and comparative studies involving archives from Harvard Medical School and University of Paris.
The journal has been praised in reviews in venues akin to Times Higher Education, The Lancet, and disciplinary newsletters from History of Science Society for fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars working on psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Critiques have focused on selection and framing reminiscent of debates seen in discussions of postcolonial studies, gender history, and the politics of archives involving institutions such as Wellcome Trust and National Institutes of Health, with commentators paralleling controversies involving HeLa cells and debates over access at Smithsonian Institution.
Category:History of science journals Category:Quarterly journals Category:Academic journals established in 1988