Mods and their scooters, Manchester 1965
The Mods
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
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS
“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes
Alice Mauger, The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Public Voluntary and Private Asylum Care
The Origins of the British Welfare State: Society, State and Social Welfare in England and Wales, 1800-1945
Fighting a Plague: Doctors’ Stories of Challenge and Innovation Combatting the AIDS Epidemic in 1980s New York City
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
Take Two Shots and Call Me in the Morning
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“The Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972”
Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities
Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End
The idea of an ethically committed social science
Till Death Do Us Part: Laborers’ Marriage Practices in Late Victorian New Zealand
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45
Of G-Men and Eggheads
Between Emotional Involvement and Professional Detachment: The Challenges of Nursing in Dutch Mental Institutions (1880–1980)
‘Remember Their Names’: Gay Men’s HIV and AIDS Death Notices, 1984–96
Informants by the Hundreds: FBI Penetration of the CPUSA
Pricing Retrovir: Wellcome PLC and the Role of Pharmaceutical Companies in the Global AIDS Crisis, 1986 to 1991
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Aging women as sexual beings. Expertise between the 1950s and 1970s in state socialist Czechoslovakia
Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary’s 1960s psychedelic movement
Lesbian and bisexual women’s experiences of aversion therapy in England
Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behavior therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s–1990s
René Spitz’s Empty Frames: ‘Hospitalism’, Screen Analysis and the Birth of Infant Psychiatry
A new piece in Psychoanalysis and History will interest AHP readers: “René Spitz’s Empty Frames: ‘Hospitalism’, Screen Analysis and the Birth of Infant Psychiatry,” by Katie Joice. Abstract: This article casts light on the origins of infant psychiatry by taking a new, interdisciplinary approach to the work of psychoanalyst and film-maker René Spitz. Focusing on … Continue reading René Spitz’s Empty Frames: ‘Hospitalism’, Screen Analysis and the Birth of Infant Psychiatry
Living With the Flu: Public Health and Civic Life During the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
“Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. By Charles Upchurch
Understanding Divorce Trends and Risks: The Case of Norway 1886–2018
Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990
Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children’s Bureau of the Dept. of Labor (1929)
The Hypnotic Screen: The Early Soviet Experiment with Film Psychotherapy
VM Bekhterev/‘O lechenii gipnozom’/Vestnik znaniia, 1926
A group of alcoholics and drug addicts undergoing Vladimir Bekhterev’s hypnotherapeutic treatment
Historical Statistics of the United States: 1789-1945
Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness
Frantz Fanon and the crisis of mental health in the Arab world
The Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in 2017.
Many anti-abortion activists before Roe were liberals who were inspired by 20th-century Catholic social teaching
A 1973 photo shows an estimated 5,000 people, women and men, marching around the Minnesota Capitol building protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
The Surveillance of Subcultures: Gay Spies, Everyday Life, and Cold War Intelligence in Divided Berlin
Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism
An open secret: Ireland’s lunatic asylums and mental hospitals
Eddie Lough at Our Lady’s Hospital in Ennis, Co Clare: Before Our Lady’s closed 20 years ago, the former assistant chief nursing officer took it upon himself to salvage its extensive paper archives.
Who Segregated America?
Asian American Histories of the United States
The Power of Community: On the Radical History of Women’s Magazines
