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It is an experience as exhilarating as it is rare, but sometimes you can actually feel the electric crackle of history being made in the air around you. On June 7, 2020, amid the tumult of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprising, a long-hated statue of the seventeenth-century slave trader Edward Colston was lassoed with ropes and pulled off its pedestal in Bristol by a crowd of hundreds of mostly young protesters.
This reading list gathers seven recent books that explore issues central to Mad Wife, concerning women’s desire, consent, and autonomy, especially as distorted by marriage: How much do we owe our spouses and partners, of our bodies and our care? What are we willing to do and risk to be true to ourselves and honor our heart’s desires? In a patriarchal culture that tells us to be and desire what men want of us, how can we even recognize our own desire or lack of it?
The US psychologist Rona M. Field’s book A Society on the Run (1973) offered a psychological account of the nature and effects of the Northern Irish Troubles at their peak in the early 1970s. The book was withdrawn shortly after publication by its publisher, Penguin Books Limited, and never reissued. Fields alleged publicly that the book had been suppressed by the British state, a claim that has often been treated uncritically. Local Northern Irish psychologists suggested that the book was taken off the market because of its scientific deficiencies. Rigorous book-historical investigation using Penguin editorial fields reveals, however, that what might appear to be a case of state suppression, or an instance of disciplinary boundary work, can be explained instead by the commercial interests and professional standards of a publisher keen to preserve its reputation for quality and reliability.
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The authors analyzed non-research industry payments—including travel fees, consulting fees, meals, and gifts—to 56,955 psychiatrists between 2015 and 2021 using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Open Payments Database (OPD)…. They found that during this study period, psychiatrists received 2,600,264 industry payments totaling $357,971,774. A total of 42,713 psychiatrists (75.0%) received at least one payment between 2015 and 2021. But the distribution was highly unequal: The top 10% of psychiatrists (N=4,271) received a median of $11,459.41, accounting for 93.6% of all industry payments, while the top 1% received a median of $362,631, accounting for 74.7% of all payments.
