Household Sanitary Inspection, Mosquito Control and Domestic Hygiene in the Gold Coast [Ghana] from the Late-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson’s Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938-1942
Unnerved: Anxiety, social change, and the transformation of modern mental health
The vision of Helmholtz
The empathy diaries: A memoir
Opium in Victorian Britain
The most popular preparation was laudanum, an alcoholic herbal mixture containing 10% opium. Called the ‘aspirin of the nineteenth century,’ laudanum was a popular painkiller and relaxant, recommended for all sorts of ailments.
Breakdown (1951)
Limits of empathy: The dementia tōjisha movement in Japan
Carrying the Family in the Body: Family Trajectories of Paraguayan Women in the Paraná Tri-Border Area
Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.
This article discusses the results of ethnographic case studies on female cross-border experiences in the Paraná Tri-Border Area (between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay) conducted in 2018 and 2019. Reclaiming the life histories of thirty Paraguayan women, we will analyze the tensions that lie between family trajectories, female transgenerational acquisition of cultural and social capitals, rural-urban and transborder mobility, and labor insertion. Our analysis will explore more in-depth the impact that productive and reproductive work overloads have on different generations of women who share family bonds, showing how their care responsibilities are intrinsically related to their agency strategies.
“If we can show that we are helping adolescents to understand themselves, their feelings and their needs, then we are doing [a] valuable job”: counselling young people on sexual health in the Brook Advisory Centre (1965-1985)
For the Temporary Accommodation of Settlers: Architecture and Immigrant Reception in Canada, 1870–1930
Western State Hospital History with James Cook
Being German Canadian History, Memory, Generations
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
Shays’ rebellion, 1786
A short history of the “Shays’ rebellion” in Massachusetts in the wake of the American Revolution, in which many poor farmers and war veterans attempt to shut down the state’s courts in protest at the debt burden on veterans and high taxes on farmers.
The Origin of the Social Welfare State in Canada, 1867-1900
Social Work and Social Welfare in Canada
Healthcare before the NHS
Charity and public welfare in history: A look at Ontario, 1830–1950
Women’s rights and the healthy personality in mid-century Australia
Communists and Community: Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941-1956
Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century
Contextualizing ovarian pain in the late 19th century—Part 1: Women with “hysteria” and “hystero-epilepsy”
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1922–36)
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
An ‘epidemic of shoplifting’? Working-class women, shop theft and Manchester’s new retail culture, 1918–1939
The Beveridge report 80 years on: ‘Squalor’ and housing—‘A true goliath’
Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know
What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History
Smithsonian Magazine | Kinograms/Wikicommons
The Battle of Blair Mountain saw 10,000 West Virginia coal miners march in protest of perilous work conditions, squalid housing and low wages, among other grievances.
Between drift and confinement: What can the study of “lunatics” in Hong Kong contribute to the historiography mental health in East Asia?
What 18th-century suicide inquests tell us about growing old in Georgian England
Many elderly ended up in workhouses as they were unable to work normal jobs and therefore cover the costs of living.
Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960
The evolution of the narcolepsy concept in Russia: A historical view
Iria Suárez Martinez: Designing the Modern Space for Sick Children in East London, 1850-1900
Ten years later: Self‐sufficiency of welfare mothers before the Great Recession
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work
The Young Lords: A Radical History
The Men’s Shed Movement in Australia: Rights, Needs and the Politics of Settler National Manhood
Infanticide and the influence of psychoanalysis on Dutch forensic psychiatry in the mid-twentieth century
The Age of Intoxication Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia: New directions
In the Wake of the Sexual Revolution: New Histories of Sexual and Gender Politics in Contemporary Australia
The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Australian Secularism, the Sexual Revolution and the Making of the New Christian Right
Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society
The Lakota never left
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Members of the American Indian Movement and the Oglala Sioux in a stand-off with FBI agents, National Guard soldiers, and federal marshals at Wounded Knee in March 1973.