In its 2016 volume, Osiris, a high-impact scientific journal at the University of Chicago, published articles presented at two workshops organized by the Emotional Culture and Identity project of the Institute for Culture and Society Institute (ICS) and the Center for the History of Emotions del Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlín). Both activities received funding from Zurich Insurance.

The journal is entitled “The History of Science and Emotions” and includes articles by several researchers, including Othniel Dror, a professor within the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Pilar Leon Sanchez, professor of medicine at the University of Navarra. Both collaborate with ICS.

According to Pilar León Sanz, this text offers "a new reading of science, adding emotions as an analytical category.” The Osiris volume explores the historical relationships between science and cultures, as well as emotional cultures, the expert noted. It has ten articles that analyze how scientific communities explain the functions of emotions, how they situate emotions between body-mind-intersubjectivity, how emotions infuse practices and how practices generate emotions, as well as the influence of the emotional sphere in the emergence of new identities, new knowledge, new technologies, and new subjectivities.

The volume will be presented by the journal’s editor, Andrea Rusnock, at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society to be held November 3-6, 2016 in Atlanta (Georgia, USA).

Osiris is one of the most prestigious journals in the field of the history of science. Journal Citation Reports include it among first quartile journals, i.e., it has high international impact. In each volume, it highlights recent research on important issues in the history of science.

Chicago University Press publishes the journal annually. George Sarton, who is considered to be the father of the History of Science, founded the journal in 1936 and it was re-launched by the Society of History of Science.

Articles and authors

• History of Science and the Emotions: Perspectives and Challenges–An Introduction, Otniel E. Dror, Bettina Hitzer, Anja Laukötter, Pilar León-Sanz

• Medieval Sciences of Emotions in the 11th -13th Centuries: An Intellectual History, Piroska Nagy & Damien Boque

• A Moving Soul: Emotions in Late Medieval Medicine, Naama Cohen-Hanegbi

• The Feeling Body and its Diseases: How Cancer Went Psychosomatic in Twentieth-Century Germany, Bettina Hitzer & Pilar León-Sanz

• Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History, Anne Harrington

• Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies, Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy, Rafael Mandressi

• Pain as practice in Paolo Mantegazza’s science of emotions, Dolores Martín-Moruno

• Tempering Madness: Emil Kraepelin’s Research on Affective Disorders, Eric J. Engstrom

• How Films Entered the Classroom: The Sciences and the Emotional Education of Youth through Health Education Films in the US and Germany, 1910-1930, Anja Laukötter

• The intimate geographies of panic disorder: parsing anxiety through psychopharmacological dissection, Felicity Callard

• Cold-War “super-pleasure”: Insatiability, Self-Stimulation and the Post-War Brain, Otniel E. Dror