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How Does It Feel? An Alternative American History, Told With Folk Music

Longreads

The “Human Subject,” “Vulnerable Populations,” and Medical History: The Problem of Presentism and the Discourse of Bioethics

The Wounded Brain Healed: The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984, by William Feindel and Richard Leblanc

Mary Winsor (Penn.) ’17 [holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]

The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

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Eating disorders: A 25-year perspective

The laboratory and the asylum: Francis Walker Mott and the pathological laboratory at London County Council Lunatic Asylum, Claybury, Essex (1895–1916)

The Dishwater Menace: Healthy Drinking Spaces and the Public Good in Post-Prohibition Ontario

Decades of Achievement: University of Tennessee College of Social Work Celebrates 75 Years

Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America

Social Work Practice: History and Evolution by Dr. John McNutt

Ireland Wanted to Forget. But the Dead Don’t Always Stay Buried.

Working class dykes: Class conflict in the lesbian/feminist movements in the 1970s

Post-mortem in the Victorian asylum: practice, purpose and findings at the Littlemore County Lunatic Asylum, 1886–7

Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada

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Beyond indifference and aversion: The critical reception and belated acceptance of behavior therapy in France

Spaces for Feeling: emotions and sociabilities in Britain, 1650–1850

After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I

Uncovering Indonesia’s Act of Killing

NYRDaily | AP

Soldiers taking suspects to prison during an anti-Communist crackdown in which some 500,000 Indonesians were killed, Jakarta, October 30, 1965

The Making of Burnout: From Social Change to Self-Awareness in the Postwar United States, 1970–82

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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm

Global mental health, autonomy and medical paternalism: reconstructing the ‘French ethical tradition’ in psychiatry

Residential Schools in Canada: An Education Guide

Medical History’s Moment in Art Photography (1920 to 1950): How Lejaren à Hiller and Valentino Sarra Created a Fashion for Scenes of Early Surgery

The Sexual Offences Act 1967. Part 2: Wolfenden’s silent women

B. F. Skinner and technology’s nation: Technocracy, social engineering, and the good life in 20th-century America

History of Psychology | Psychlopedia

Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry

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Sandor Rado, American psychoanalysis, and the question of bisexuality

Nerves and War. Psychological Experiences of Mobilization and Suffering in Germany, 1900-1933

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Advances in the History of Psychology | IWM (Q 88100)

Letters on insanitary dwellings and the housing of the poor (1884)

Donnacha Seán Lucey. The End of the Irish Poor Law: Welfare and Healthcare Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland

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Donnacha Seán Lucey. The End of the Irish Poor Law: Welfare and Healthcare Reform in Revolutionary and Independent Ireland

Your family needs protection against syphilis Your wife or husband and children should be examined and treated if necessary.

NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project | LoC

Where Native Kids Were Sent To Be Americanized

Sherman Indian Museum

School officials hired photographers to create propaganda photos depicting the “joys” of life at Sherman. In this one, Navajo girls make fry bread.

Rebellion and Reconstruction in Newark

Irish Social Welfare Act, 1952

Florence Kelley (1859 – 1932): Social Reformer, Child Welfare Advocate, Socialist and Pacifist

Social Welfare History Project/LoC

In 1891 Kelley joined Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Ellen Gates Starr, and other women at Hull House. Kelley’s first job after coming to the Hull House settlement was to visit the area around the settlement, surveying the working conditions in local factories. She found children as young as three or four working in tenement sweatshops.