The journal Osiris, academic publication high-impact journal of the University of Chicago, collects in its 2016 volume articles from the Institute for Culture and Society on the history of science and emotions. The papers were presented at two workshops organized by the project 'Emotional culture and identity' of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) and the Center for the History of Emotions of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin). They were supported by Zurich Insurance.

Under the degree scroll 'History of science and emotions', the journal collects articles by several researchers, among them Otniel Dror, professor of the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Pilar León Sánchez, professor of Medicine at the University of Navarra. Both are ICS collaborators.

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

The volume is to be presented by the journal's editor, Andrea Rusnock, at the meeting Annual 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. The Journal Citation Reports includes it in the first quartile journals, i.e. of high international impact. Each volume highlights recent research on important topics in the history of science.

The journal is published by Chicago University Press and is published annually. It was founded in 1936 by George Sarton, considered the father of the discipline History of Science, and relaunched by the History of Science Society.

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