The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
All the love: transnational youth and disability in El Salvador’s civil war
Classic Text No. 134: ‘A case of Wernicke-Bostroem’s expansive autopsychosis’, by Ib Ostenfeld (1944)
History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
Expansive autopsychosis, grouped with cycloid psychoses – an illness entity of double origin: (1) Morel’s notion degeneracy, reformulated by Magnan and Legrain (reflected in Wimmer’s concept: psychogenic psychosis); (2) Wernicke’s, Kleist’s, Bostroem’s (and later Leonhard’s) notion of these purportedly independent conditions. Locked in the Danish language, Strömgren and Ostenfeld provided important contributions to this field, exemplified by Ostenfeld’s casuistry, translated in this Classic Text.
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology
History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
Ancient Greek and Latin medical authors considered a flight into solitude a compelling sign of mental disturbance, frequently described as misanthropia, a word fraught with meaning beyond the medical discourse. The fictionalised character Timon of Athens, the quintessential misanthrope, can shed light on ancient cultural concepts of self-imposed isolation from human contact. To cope with the sense of unease this deviant behaviour induced, misanthropia was explained as ‘madness’, ridiculed in various genres of humour, morally condemned in philosophy, and ultimately demonized in Christian cosmology. These various attempts at containment echo in the medical works of the age, making it impossible to comprehend the concept of misanthropia in ancient medicine without taking full account of the cultural context.
A question of equity? The ‘value’ of male and female virginity in late 18th and early 19th century Athens
Birth Control as a National Challenge: Nationalizing Concepts of Families in Eastern Europe 1914–1939
Health Education Against Malaria (US Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, 1944)
Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland
Founding regulation of the EMCDDA adopted 30 years ago
75 years on from the Children Act 1948: A short history of Serious Case Reviews
Social Work Today | Wonder Wall
Predatory Nuns: Sexual Abuse in North American Catholic Sisterhoods
The World Bank: A Critical History
The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life
EpsteinStephenThe Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 449. $30.00. Pbk ISBN 978-0-2268-1822-1.
Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)
The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Agnes Arnold-Forster
Arnold-ForsterAgnes. The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteen-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 272 pp.
How Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the 19th-century temperance movement
The Republic of Fear: Mental Illness in the Finnish Civil War of 1918
Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade
Marriage patterns of Irish convict women in nineteenth-century Tasmania
Plague hospitals and poor relief in late medieval and early modern France
Transitory inequalities: how individual-level cause-specific death data can unravel socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1864–1955
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London
Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
“The Miracle Cure.” A Brief History of Lobotomies
‘And now you love me, and there is no way out of it’: marital engagement, misogyny and violence in the Victorian fin-de-siècle gothic short story
The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement
Why Early Modern Mass Incarceration Matters: The Bamberg Malefizhaus, 1627–31
War, gender, and lasting emotion: letters and photographs of Masha Bruskina and Olga Bancic, 1941–44
Laboratory of deficiency: Sterilization and confinement in California, 1900–1950s Natalie Lira University of California Press, 2022. 284 pp. $29.95 (soft). ISBN 9780520355682.
Even the Women Are Leaving Migrants Making Mexican America, 1890–1965
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
Early Modern Wales, c.1536-1689: Ambiguous Nationhood (Rethinking the History of Wales)
Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day – Garden and Landscape History
The processes and context of innovation in mental healthcare: Oxfordshire as a case study
Schizophrenia: An unfinished history
Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile. By Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
A Cultural History of Youth, Volumes 1-6
Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism
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Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality
Maps of desire: Edward Tolman’s drive theory of wants*
Emil Kraepelin as a historian of psychiatry – one hundred years on
The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis
The Dome of Thought: Phrenology and the Nineteenth-Century Popular Imagination
Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s
Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School. Above: Max Horkheimer (center left), Theodor Adorno (center right), and Jürgen Habermas (far right) at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology in Heidelberg, 1964.
Vasectomy in Interwar Europe: From Medical to Political Practices
Verdicts on Hans Eysenck and the fluxing context of British psychology
