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...

In this issue’s Education and debate section Evans and Greaves describe two educational developments in medical humanities. These initiatives appear to raise two important issues in the context of developing the humanities in medical education. Evans and Greaves describe their master’s programme as being “philosophy looking at humanities disciplines looking at medicine”. This acknowledgement of...

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...

The information expressed in humanities datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication,” which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal r...

The Medical Humanities provide an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the profound effects of illness on individuals and the social worlds in which they live and work. Humanities in medical education may offer significant potential benefits to personal future physicians and to the medical community as a whole. The meaning of medical humanities in medical education, reasons, benefits, wa...