‘Wars Begin in the Minds of Men’: Psychiatry and the Cold War Antinuclear Movement
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front
The urge: Our history of addiction Carl Erik Fisher Penguin Press, 2022. 400 pp. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780525561446.
Sensitive, Indifferent or Labile: Psychopathy and Emotions in Finnish Forensic Psychiatry, 1900s–1960s
The quest for objectivity and measurements in phrenology’s “bumpy” history.
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depressions) thought to reflect underlying brain areas differing in size and levels of activity. Franz Joseph Gall, who introduced the doctrine during the 1790s, relied heavily on seeing and feeling skulls when he formulated his theory, as did Johann Spurzheim, who served as his assistant until 1813 and then set forth on his own. But Peter Mark Roget, a British critic of the doctrine, first assailed these methods as too subjective in 1818, and never changed his mind. George Combe, a Scotsman who admired Spurzheim, introduced calipers and other measuring instruments during the 1820s, hoping to make phrenology more like the admired physical sciences. In the United States, the Fowlers also called for more numbers, including measuring distances between the cortical sites above the organs of mind. Nonetheless, phrenologists realized they faced formidable barriers when it came to measuring the physical organs of mind, as opposed to basic skull dimensions. This essay examines the subjectivity that left phrenology open to criticism and shows how some phrenologists tried to overcome it. It also shows how vision and touch remained features of phrenological examinations throughout the numbers-obsessed 19th century. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
How disruptions happen
A riot on Nevsky Prospekt in Petrograd (St Petersburg) on 17 July 1917 after troops of the provisional government opened fire; this unrest was a precursor to the October revolution.
The Winding Road to the Welfare State: Economic insecurity and social welfare policy in Britain
‘It was a wonderful age’: Capturing the stories of a long gone inner-city Dublin
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
Social Stratification and Career Choice Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948
Operation Pedro Pan: The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro’s Cuba
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S.
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A unique single-copy “unburnable” edition of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at Sotheby’s. This fireproof edition of the often-banned book was created to raise awareness about the proliferation of censorship.
Stepfamilies across Europe and overseas, 1550–1900
Development of psychology in Bulgaria after the political changes in 1989
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture
Disturbing spirits: Mental illness, trauma, and treatment in modern Syria and Lebanon Beverly A. Tsacoyianis Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 370 pp. $55 cloth; $43.99 EPUB/PDF. ISBN: 9780268200725 (cloth); 9780268200749 (EPUB); 9780268200718 (PDF)
Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution
Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project
Decolonizing Discipline: Children, Corporal Punishment, Christian Theologies, and Reconciliation
Maoism and mental illness: psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Sounding the Archival Silence: Searching for Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Asylum
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The social world of the school: Education and community in interwar London
Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism
Carver School of Social Work was a victim of American fundamentalism, authors explain
Necrophilia, Psychiatry, and Sexology: The Making of Sexual Science in Mid-Twentieth Century Peru
Nude Bodies in British Women’s Magazines at the Turn of the 1970s: Agency, Spectatorship, and the Sexual Revolution
Over Sexed, Over Paid and Over Here … Again? Americans on R&R in Vietnam-Era Sydney
A Science of Hope? Tracing Emergent Entanglements between the Biology of Early Life Adversity, Trauma-informed Care, and Restorative Justice
Lessons From a Radical Past: One Man’s Journey into the Factories in the 1970s
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Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy
Health and Efficiency Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body
Face the facts and help to control syphilis
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Psychologization in and through the women’s movement: A transnational history of the psychologization of consciousness‐raising in the German‐speaking countries and the United States
From Warkworth House to the 21st century care homes: progress marked by persistent challenges
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A neglected and forgotten episode of Nazi Race Psychology in Occupied Poland: A critical analysis by T. Tomaszewski (1945).
The Mods
Mods and their scooters, Manchester 1965
Breaking Point: The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II
‘A Bargain with the Devil’: Human Rights and Homelessness in the Neoliberal Age
Shame may be fatal If you fear you have contracted a disease
British Social Welfare History in the Twentieth Century
Addiction Classic: The 1964 US Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health
When standard measurement meets messy genitalia: Lessons from 20th century phallometry and cervimetry
Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America
Stop syphilis: Support local and state efforts to reduce syphilis
