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History (4,156 posts)

A case study in Gantt charts as historiophoty: A century of psychology at the University of Alberta.

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History is typically presented as historiography, where historians communicate via the written word. However, some historians have suggested alternative formats for communicating and thinking about historical information. One such format is known as historiophoty, which involves using a variety of visual images to represent history. The current article proposes that a particular type of graph, known as a Gantt chart, is well suited for conducting historiophoty.

Posted in: History on 09/21/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Battling demons with medical authority: werewolves, physicians and rationalization

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This paper attempts to construct a conceptual history of werewolf beliefs and their respective medical responses.

Posted in: History on 09/20/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Rural migration in Korea: a transition to the modern era

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In this paper, we examine the migration patterns of the rural Korean population during Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945), the period immediately preceding full-scale industrialization.

Posted in: History on 09/19/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Disease Class and Social Change: Tuberculosis in Folkestone and Sandgate 1880-1930

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This book is a detailed history of the treatment of tuberculosis in Folkestone and its suburb Sandgate during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, roughly up to the mid 1930s. It describes the development of Folkestone in the nineteenth century as a fashionable seaside resort becoming more accessible due to the development of the railway.

Posted in: History on 09/18/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A child of the empire: British sociology and colonialism, 1940s–1960s

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Posted in: History on 09/17/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The theoretical root of Karl Jaspers’ General Psychopathology. Part 2: The influence of Max Weber

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Both Weber and Jaspers began from empathic understanding, but at the same time aimed for a rational and ideal-typical conceptualization. In addition, their methodologies were similar with respect to their detailed terminology.

Posted in: History on 09/16/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mental health issues of Maria I of Portugal and her sisters: the contributions of the Willis family to the development of psychiatry

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Contemporary accounts credit Dr Francis Willis (1718–1807) with facilitating the recovery of King George III from his major episode of acute mania in 1788–9.

Posted in: History on 09/15/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Poor Relief in England 1350–1600

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Posted in: History on 09/14/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Unequal desires: race and erotic capital in the stripping industry

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Posted in: History on 09/13/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Bavarian royal drama of 1886 and the misuse of psychiatry: new results

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The deaths of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Bernhard von Gudden, Professor of Psychiatry in Munich, in Lake Starnberg near Munich on 13 June 1886 have often been mentioned in the psychiatric-historical literature and in fiction. Von Gudden had written a psychiatric assessment of the King, rating him permanently mentally ill and incapable of reigning.

Posted in: History on 09/12/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The social sciences, philosophy, and the cultural turn in the 1930s USDA

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One of the more unusual attempts by the American state to mobilize academic expertise unfolded in the late 1930s, when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) hired scholars in the “culture and personality” fields and philosophy to aid its efforts to promote economic, social, and cultural change in the countryside.

Posted in: History on 09/11/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher

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Russell Brand, a young comedian and actor who was born the year Thatcher became leader of her party, testifies to the effect she had on him as he was growing up in the 1980s, as he worries about his “inability to ascertain where my own selfishness ends and her neo-liberal inculcation begins. All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people’s pain is in fact a weakness and suffering is deserved and shameful.”

Posted in: History on 09/10/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Testing of Sanocrysin: Science, Profit, and Innovation in Clinical Trial Design, 1926-31

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This article provides a detailed analysis of the origins and significance of the 1926 clinical trial of Sanocrysin, a gold compound thought at the time to be useful in the treatment of tuberculosis. This experiment is generally considered to be the first clinical trial in the United States that used a formal system of randomization to divide research subjects into treatment and nontreatment groups; it was probably also the first clinical trial in the United States to use placebo shams in a nontreatment control group to overcome the problem of what researchers at the time called “psychic influence.”

Posted in: History on 09/09/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Save Your Child From Autocracy and Poverty

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Posted in: History on 09/08/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America

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Many histories chronicle American medicine’s transformation from its chaotic and disorganized beginnings into “scientific medicine” in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.1 By synthesizing secondary sources in a tightly packed two hundred pages, Elaine Breslaw resists retelling this triumphalist narrative and instead focuses much needed attention on medicine and health in America before the Civil War.

Posted in: History on 09/07/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Psychiatric nurse C. Chisholm comforting patient (c.1955)

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Posted in: History on 09/06/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Profiles of international archives: Les archives Jean Piaget, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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This research report provides a look behind closed doors at the Jean Piaget Archives in Geneva, Switzerland. It situates the potential visitor, contextualizes the Archives in its own history, and then describes what scholars can expect to find.

Posted in: History on 09/05/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Psychodynamics in child psychiatry in Sweden, 1945-85: from political vision to treatment ideology

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In this article, changing treatment ideologies and policies in child psychiatric outpatient services in Sweden from 1945 to 1985 are examined. The aim is to discuss the role played by psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking in this process of change.

Posted in: History on 09/04/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Equal Justice for All, Welfare Rights Group, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

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Equal Justice for All (EJA) was started in 1985 by a group of people who were very concerned with the fact that low-income citizens did not always receive fair treatment under the laws and regulations from the organizations set up to serve them.

Posted in: History on 09/03/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Wilbur J. Cohen – Government Official, Educator, Social Welfare Expert

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Wilbur Cohen being sworn in as Secretary of HEW. Looking on are President Johnson (r), Vice-President Hubert Humphrey (l) and Cohen’s wife and three sons.

Posted in: History on 09/02/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Eros and ironic intoxication: Profound longing, madness and discipleship in Plato’s Symposium and in modern life

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The Symposium addresses the relation between desire, beauty and the good life, while indicating the fascination that strong teaching arouses in followers. For Plato, unlike for moderns, power, desire and ethics are interrelated.

Posted in: History on 09/01/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Inevitable Hour: A History of Caring for Dying Patients in America

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While many Americans in the nineteenth century accepted death as a common and inevitable part of life, the experience and meaning of dying changed between 1880 and 1965 as the growing prestige of medicine led both patients and doctors to reject the inevitability of death and to emphasize the fight for recovery instead.

Posted in: History on 08/31/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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From movement to organization: constructing identity in Swedish trade unions

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This study argues that re-formation of working-class identity was crucial for the construction of a cohesive labour movement in Sweden. Analysis of the materials used in trade union study circles in the 1920s and 1930s reveals that the organizational identity constructed by the leadership was closely linked to the organization as a phenomenon rather than to the class structure on which it was based.

Posted in: History on 08/30/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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When is the State’s Gaze Focused? British Royal Commissions and the Bureaucratization of Conflict

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Scholars have long documented changes in knowledge regimes and power relations characteristic of state-centric drives to pacify conflicts and govern populations. But the mechanisms through which social conflicts are “made legible” in routine policy processes – as well as the reasons why some ongoing conflicts are pacified and others are persistent – have remained less clear.

Posted in: History on 08/29/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Female serial killers in the early modern age? Recurrent infanticide in Finland 1750–1896

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This article examines multiple infanticide in early modern Finland in which the same woman killed several newborns after repeated hidden pregnancies and childbirths.

Posted in: History on 08/28/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Born Together—Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 410 pp. $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-01715-0.

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Posted in: History on 08/27/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Breadwinners: working women and economic independence, 1865–1920

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Posted in: History on 08/26/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Grassroots Memorials. The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death

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We are living in a time of “memorial mania,” in popular culture as much as in academic publishing. This is not to say that all traumatic deaths are seen as warranting attention, let alone public displays of grief.

Posted in: History on 08/24/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil Service

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Fifty years ago civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for espionage. Vassall was homosexual, and whilst working at the British Embassy in Moscow, was caught in a Soviet Secret Service ‘honeytrap’, and blackmailed into passing secrets to the Soviet Union, receiving payments for his efforts.

Posted in: History, Podcasts on 08/23/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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How Personality Became Treatable

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Posted in: History on 08/22/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Social Welfare Library (1922)

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Posted in: History on 08/22/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Visiting Robbers Cave: A History of Psychology Roadtrip

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In the summer of 1954 psychologist Muzafer Sherif, along with a group of research assistants posing as camp personnel, brought a group of twenty-two eleven and twelve year old boys to Camp Tom Hale in Robbers Cave State Park.

Posted in: History on 08/20/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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American Sociology: History and Racially Gendered Classed Knowledge Reproduction

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Posted in: History on 08/19/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Medicine, Morality, and Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c. 1870-c. 1995

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Has there been a specifically Scandinavian way of dealing with venereal disease (VD)? This is one of the central questions asked by Norwegian historian Ida Blom in her recent monograph.

Posted in: History on 08/18/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Intergenerational transmission of young motherhood. Evidence from Sweden, 1986–2009

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This study examines the intergenerational transmission of fertility patterns from mothers who had their first birth at young ages to their daughters using nationally representative longitudinal data from from population registers in Sweden, 1986–2009.

Posted in: History on 08/17/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Access to marriage and reproduction among migrants in Antwerp and Stockholm. A longitudinal approach to processes of social inclusion and exclusion, 1846–1926

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Posted in: History on 08/16/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Domestic servants and diffusion of fertility control in Flanders, 1830–1930

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This article uses a mixed method approach to analyse whether urban domestic service functioned as a diffusion channel in the fertility decline. The central hypothesis is that nineteenth century female, rural-born domestic servants were influenced by the reproductive habits of their middle and upper-class employers, who were vanguards in the adoption of family size limitation within marriage.

Posted in: History on 08/16/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Father Charles E. Coughlin

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Posted in: History on 08/15/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Social Evolution of the Term Half-Caste in Britain: The Paradox of its Use as Both Derogatory Racial Category and Self-Descriptor

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The term “half-caste” had its origins in nineteenth century British colonial administrations, emerging in the twentieth century as the quotidian label for those whose ancestry comprised multiple ethnic/racial groups, usually encompassing “White”.

Posted in: History on 08/14/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tracing marriages; legal requirements and actual practice, 1700-1836

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Based upon studies of thousands of couples, this podcast explains how, when and where people in past centuries married. Family historians just starting out will find advice on where ‘missing’ marriages are most likely to be found, while those already well advanced in tracing their family tree will be able to interpret their discoveries to better understand whether their ancestors actions and choices made them exceptional or normal for their day.

Posted in: History, Podcasts on 08/13/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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William Richard Gowers, 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain

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Among those physicians and scientists who pioneered the study of the nervous system and its diseases in Victorian Britain, few were as significant as William Richard Gowers (1845–1915). Although he is most famous for his two-volume Manuel of Nervous Diseases, his studies in spinal diseases and epilepsy still elicit the admiration of neurologists, psychiatrists, and medical psychologists today.

Posted in: History on 08/11/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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No (inter)sex please, we’re Olympians

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The treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African athlete whose victory in the 800m at the World Championships in 2009 ended in acrimony after she was accused of being ‘a man’, once again raises the issue of how intersexed athletes are treated by the various international sports bodies.

Posted in: History, Podcasts on 08/10/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Union voices: tactics and tensions in UK organizing

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Posted in: History on 08/09/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Social class and migration in two northeastern Japanese villages, 1716–1870

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This paper examines the effects of household social class called ‘mibun’ on the likelihood of migration among peasant men and women from their residing communities, focusing on two farming villages in preindustrial northeastern Japan.

Posted in: History on 08/08/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A History of The Commonwealth Fund’s Child Development and Preventive Care Program

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Posted in: History on 08/07/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The bones of the insane

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This article examines alienist explanations for fracture among British asylum patients in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries

Posted in: History on 08/06/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720

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The myth of neglected sick children in the past was deconstructed during the last few decades by diverse authors of both medical and social history. Families saw children as worthwhile members, and assisted them in sickness and misery. Hannah Newton’s book The Sick Child in Early Modern England stands in this tradition. But she achieves more than to affirm the results of earlier research.

Posted in: History on 08/04/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Debating between History and Theory

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Red Cottages and Swedish Virtues: Swedish Institutional Drug Treatment as an Ideological Project 1968-1981

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This article investigates Swedish drug treatment as an ideological project, from the establishment of the first treatment centres in the late 1960s up until the change in legislation and management in the early 1980s.

Posted in: History on 08/02/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Hospital for Insane, Northampton

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The Northampton State Hospital was opened in 1858 to provide moral therapy to the “insane,” and under the superintendency of Pliny Earle, became one of the best known asylums in New England. Before the turn of the century, however, the Hospital declined, facing the problems of overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate funding. The push for psychiatric deinstitutionalization in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a steady reduction of the patient population, the last eleven of whom left Northampton State in 1993.

Posted in: History on 08/02/2013 | Link to this post on IFP |
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