Historiography and Nonwestern Pasts

Reductionism: Historiography and Psychology

Pharmaceutical Historiography

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 ...

Forensic historiography: narratives and science.

Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have been skeptical of using narratives, raising concerns about their lack of objectivity and potential for bias. They also have criticized narratives as being more performative than scientific. Recent authors, however...

Stories of Pasts and Futures in Planning

Societies are constantly changing, facing new challenges and possibilities generated by innovative technologies, sociospatial re-structuring, mobilities, migration and virtual networks. This has been associated with new forms of regional competitiveness, institutional networks and constellations of power in the global economy. For example, several European programmes and policy documents have b...

Quantum Pasts and the Utility of History

From data in the present we can predict the future and retrodict the past. These predictions and retrodictions are for histories — most simply time sequences of events. Quantum mechanics gives probabilities for individual histories in a decoherent set of alternative histories. This paper discusses several issues connected with the distinction between prediction and retrodiction in quantum cosmo...