Call for Papers: Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technolog
One of the more interesting and promising new journals out there has issued a call for papers for vol. 1, no. 3.  Here is the Call: We are calling for papers for Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology, Vol. 1 Nº 3 - April 2010. Next deadline for submitting papers will be January 15, 2010. Information for authors is available at the Information for authors section of our website. Any enquiries please contact us to submit@ea-journal.com.

Call for Applications: Brocher Foundation
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS IN 2011 Write a book, articles, an essay or your PhD thesis in a peaceful environment on the shore of the Lake of Geneva in 2011 Have the opportunity to meet other researchers from different disciplines and countries Have the opportunity to meet experts from numerous International Organizations & Non Governmental Organizations based in Geneva (WHO, WTO, WIPO, UNHCR, ILO, WMA, ICRC, …) THE BROCHER RESIDENCIESThe Brocher Foundation residencies last between one and six months. They give researchers the opportunity to work at the Brocher Centre on pr

Call for Papers: Disability History (UK)
Disability History Conference 2010 Disability History: looking forward to a better past?June 25th - 27th, 2010 University of Central LancashirePreston, UK Plenary Speakers: Professor Catherine J Kudlick, University of California, Davis Professor Tom Shakespeare, University of Newcastle Disability history has emerged in recent years as an increasingly popular sub-discipline of historical research, covering social, cultural, medical, practical, gendered, technological and linguistic aspects of the lives of those seen by society as having ‘disabled’ bodies and

On Eugenics, Castration of Dwarfs, and Consent
Paul Lombardo (Georgia State - Law) has uploaded a new paper to SSRN entitled Tracking Chromosomes, Castrating Dwarves: Uninformed Consent and Eugenic Research (full-text download available).  Here is the Abstract: In 1929 Charles B. Davenport, a prominent biologist and leader in the American eugenics movement, carried out an experimental castration of a "Mongoloid dwarf" at a New York State mental institution. His goal was to retrieve tissue for chromosomal analysis in an attempt to understand the basis of syndromal

On Models of Causation in Epidemiology
Alex Broadbent (History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Cambridge) has a fascinating new article out in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.  The title is Causation and Models of Disease in Epidemiology.  Here is the Abstract: