The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
Antimilitarism, Citizenship and Motherhood: the formation and early years of the Women’s International League (WIL), 1915–1919
Moving toward Integration The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Pauper Prisons . . . Pauper Palaces
Psychologists Defying the Crowd: Stories of Those Who Battled the Establishment and Won
Contribution of the Mental Deficiency Institution to the training of medical students (1960)
Historicizing transcultural psychiatry: people, epistemic objects, networks, and practices
The Dangers and Temptations of the Street: managing female behaviour in Belfast during the First World War
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State. By Catherine E. Rymph
Depression-era billboards sold and celebrated the “American way”
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migrants are camped. Kern County, California. 1938.
The Licensed City Regulating drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920
In nineteenth-century Britain few cities could rival Liverpool for recorded drunkenness. Civic pride at Liverpool’s imperial influence was undercut by anxieties about social problems that could all be connected to alcohol, from sectarian unrest and prostitution in the city’s streets to child neglect and excess mortality in its slums.
The Town Poor by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation
Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the Canadian public.
Laurinda Abreu, The Political and Social Dynamics of Poverty, Poor Relief and Health Care in Early-Modern Portugal
“He Must Die or Go Mad in This Place”: Prisoners, Insanity, and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment, 1842–52
Revealing the “Social Consequences of Unemployment”: The Settlement Campaign for the Unemployed on the Eve of Depression
Stuart Wildman, ‘He’s only a pauper whom nobody owns’: Caring for the Sick in the Warwickshire Poor Law Unions 1834–1914
Living The Poor Life
“The Neurosis That Has Possessed Us”: Political Repression in the Cold War Medical Profession
Striking Posters From Occupy Wall Street
The Regina Manifesto (1933): Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Adopted by the founding convention in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933. The establishment of a commission composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, socially minded jurists and social workers, to deal with all matters pertaining to crime and punishment and the general administration of law, in order to humanize the law and to bring it into harmony with the needs of the people.
Pauper Prisons. . . Pauper Palaces. . .
The struggle of the ‘mill girls’: class consciousness in early 19th century New England
The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass Group, 1932.
Valentin Magnan and Sergey Korsakov: French and Russian pioneers in the study of alcohol abuse
Science and Self-Assessment: Phrenological Charts 1840–1940
Mrs Clitherow, Phrenological Chart, no date
They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression
The Emergence of Social Security in Canada: Third Edition
The Grey Zone: Growing up Biracial in Rural Canada
Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers
Dr. Robert G. Heath: a controversial figure in the history of deep brain stimulation
FIG. 3. A patient of Heath’s who underwent DBS therapy for schizophrenia.
This plug-in arrangement was a modified version of their initial lead system and consisted of a plastic headpiece fitted with a special connector. Left: Photograph showing the plastic headpiece with an electrode connecter. Wires can be seen going from the connecter lead pins to the scalp. Right: The plastic headpiece is wrapped with dressing, leaving only the connector exposed.
Celebrating the Commonwealth Fund’s Centennial: Marking Efforts to Reduce Disparities and Improve Care for the Most Vulnerable
100 Years of Care
On the forest front: labour relations and seasonal migration in 1960s–80s
Pneumoencephalography in the workup of neuropsychiatric illnesses: a historical perspective
FIG. 3. Photograph from an article outlining technical details of the pediatric PEG. The technique included using atropine and codeine for premedication, with Avertin and ether administered throughout the procedure. The child was positioned sitting on a bench with thighs fastened to the bench. The forehead rested on the vertical Potty-Bucky
diaphragm with several pillows and a sandbag on his or her lap built up to rest the chin. This group advocated the use of oxygen instead of room air for injection.
The evolution of language populations in Canada, by mother tongue, from 1901 to 2016
‘Treatment Not Trident’: Medical Activism, Health Inequality and Anti-Militarism in 1980s Britain
Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18
Manzanar
Watchtower at Manzanar
Drunks: The Story of Alcoholism and the Birth of Recovery
‘A matter for conjecture’: leucotomy in Western Australia, 1947–70
The Angry Brigade, part 1
The first of a two-part interview about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first urban guerrilla group, with John Barker, author, who in 1972 was convicted for being part of the organisation.
The Tolpuddle martyrs, 1834
The history of the Tolpuddle martyrs: a group of six agricultural workers from Dorset, England who were sentenced to transportation to Australia for attempting to form a union.
Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy
James Watts and staff performing a prefrontal lobotomy.