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Our 137 Year Commitment to the Safety and Well Being of Children

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Posted in: History on 12/14/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Irish Catholic Identity in 1870s Otago, New Zealand

This article outlines the progress made by Bishop Patrick Moran (1823–1895) in standardising doctrinal practices of Irish Catholic immigrants in New Zealand in the 1870s.

Posted in: History on 12/12/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The other alliance: student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global Sixties

Posted in: History on 12/11/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Building a just and secure world: popular front women’s struggle for peace and justice in Chicago during the 1960s

Posted in: History on 12/08/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Emaciated, Exhausted, and Excited: The Bodies and Minds of the Irish in Late Nineteenth-Century Lancashire Asylums

Drawing on asylum admission records, casebooks, annual reports, and notebooks recording the settlement of Irish patients, this article examines a deeply traumatic and enduring aspect of the Irish migration experience, the confinement of large numbers of Irish migrants in the Lancashire asylum system in the late nineteenth century.

Posted in: History on 12/07/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Little Albert: A neurologically impaired child

Evidence collected by Beck, Levinson, and Irons (2009) indicates that Albert B., the “lost” infant subject of John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner’s (1920) famous conditioning study, was Douglas Merritte (1919–1925). Following the finding that Merritte died early with hydrocephalus, questions arose as to whether Douglas’s condition was congenital, rather than acquired in 1922, as cited on his death certificate.

Posted in: History on 12/06/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Madness is civilization: when the diagnosis was social, 1948–1980

Posted in: History on 12/06/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression

Fifty years ago, the number of people diagnosed with depression was relatively modest. At present, by contrast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that no less than one in ten Americans suffer from this condition, or well over thirty million. What is responsible for such a far reaching transformation?

Posted in: History on 12/04/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mad doctors? The significance of medical practitioners admitted as patients to the first English county asylums up to 1890

This article analyses medical admissions to asylums via both case notes and other sources such as newspaper reports, revealing the responses of medical superintendents to their former colleagues and, in some cases, the judgements of practitioners on their institutional surroundings.

Posted in: History on 12/03/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Swept up from the Streets or Nowhere Else to Go? The Journeys of Dutch Female Beggars and Vagrants to the Oegstgeest State Labor Institution in the Late Nineteenth Century

Most of them were relatively old women, single, and a quarter had children out of wedlock. Disease was prevalent, mortality was high and many of them had physical or psychological handicaps.

Posted in: History on 12/03/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Madness is Civilisation: When the Diagnosis was Social, 1948-1980

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Michael Staub’s Madness is Civilization is about an era that ended just thirty years ago. Yet, the views it features seem as culturally distant from current psychiatric thought as do such topics as phrenology, neurasthenia or magnetism.

Posted in: History on 12/02/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Sciences of the Soul: The Early Modern Origins of Psychology

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Vidal’s ultimate goal in this ambitious, erudite and stimulating book is to overturn the myth that the discipline of psychology emerged in the nineteenth century by tracing its career within European intellectual history from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

Posted in: History on 12/01/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Unemployed miners on street corner. Johnston City, Illinois (1939)

LoC | LC-USF34- 026933-D Arthur Rothstein

Posted in: History on 11/30/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tracing marriages; legal requirements and actual practice, 1700-1836 [podcast]

Posted in: History on 11/29/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Everyday Struggles against Franco’s Authoritarian Legacy: Pedagogical Social Movements and Democracy in Spain

The most important foci of social resistance to the dictatorship were the workers’ organizations, the student and nationalist movements.

Posted in: History on 11/28/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Youth cultures and the disciplining of Czechoslovak youth in the 1960s

Posted in: History on 11/28/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The AIDS Pandemic in Historic Perspective

Potent antiretroviral drugs (ART) have changed the nature of AIDS, a once deadly disease, into a manageable illness and offer the promise of reducing the spread of HIV. But the pandemic continues to expand and cause significant morbidity and devastation to families and nations as ART cannot be distributed worldwide to all who need the drugs to treat their infections, prevent HIV transmission, or serve as prophylaxis.

Posted in: History on 11/27/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“Neither guns nor bombs – neither the state nor God – will stop us from fighting for our children”: motherhood and protest in 1960s and 1970s America

This article looks at ideologies of motherhood within the welfare rights movement of the late 1960s and the anti-busing struggle of the early 1970s, primarily focusing on Boston.

Posted in: History on 11/26/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Childersburg, Alabama. WPA (Works Progress Administration) day nursey for defense workers’ children (1942)

LoC | LC-USF34- 082851-C John Collier

Posted in: History on 11/25/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Political authority and popular opinion: Czechoslovakia’s German population 1948–60

Posted in: History on 11/24/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Social Welfare in Transition: Selected English Documents, 1834-1909

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Roy Lubove (1966)

Posted in: History on 11/23/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The narcotic drug problem

Ernest Simons Bishop (1920)

Posted in: History on 11/22/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Diego Armus, The Ailing City: Health, Tuberculosis, and Culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950

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By focusing on a wide range of topics such as urban utopias, tango lyrics, literature, physical education, and female clothing, alongside the emergence of a culture of hygiene, Armus asserts, ‘my intent is to show how the disease deeply affected and was affected by multiple spheres of life in modern Buenos Aires’

Posted in: History on 11/22/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The new WPA (Work Projects Administration) school in Franklin, Heard County, Georgia (1941)

LoC | LC-USF34- 043887-D Jack Delano

Posted in: History on 11/21/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Crossing sisters: patterns of protest in the journal of the Catholic Union of Slovak Women during the Second World War

Posted in: History on 11/20/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Teaching about mental health and illness through the history of the DSM.

Most students enter introductory or abnormal psychology courses with a naively realist concept of what constitutes mental illness, and most textbooks do little to complicate this understanding. The tendency to reify the various diagnostic categories of the mental health disciplines into stable and independent illnesses is ever present.

Posted in: History on 11/19/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Education for Citizenship in a Bi-Racial Civilization; Black Teachers and the Social Construction of Race, 1929-1954

From the Great Depression through the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling in 1954, the way that American teachers understood and taught about race in the classroom underwent a paradigmatic shift.

Posted in: History on 11/18/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Differences in intergenerational fertility associations by sex and race in Saba, Dutch Caribbean, 1876–2004

This study examines the intergenerational transmission of fertility behavior in Saba, Dutch Caribbean from 1876 to 2004 using reconstituted genealogies.

Posted in: History on 11/17/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Neuro Psychiatry 1943: The Role of Documentary Film in the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge and Promotion of the U.K. Psychiatric Profession

The cinematographic skills of Wright and director Michael Hankinson, together with their reformist agenda, created a clinical presentation that emphasized achievements without acknowledging the limitations not only of the therapies offered by doctors but also the resources available to a nation at war.

Posted in: History on 11/16/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Reconciling Identities in Life and Death: The Social Child in the Early Helladic Peloponnese

This paper utilises the fragmentary child mortuary record of the Early Helladic Peloponnese to approach the social identity of children during this period.

Posted in: History on 11/14/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Naoko Wake. Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism

Posted in: History on 11/13/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Varieties of psychiatric criticism

Thomas Szasz: I present a brief overview of the history of psychiatric criticism, followed by a critique of modern objections to diverse psychiatric practices.

Posted in: History on 11/12/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Cadaver Brains and Excesses in Baccho and Venere: Dementia Paralytica in Dutch Psychiatry (1870-1920)

This article explores the approach of dementia paralytica by psychiatrists in the Netherlands between 1870 and 1920 against the background of international developments.

Posted in: History on 11/11/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Freud’s social theory: Modernist and postmodernist revisions

Acknowledging the power of the id-drives, Freud held on to the authority of reason as the ego’s best tool to control instinctual desire. He thereby placed analytic reason at the foundation of his own ambivalent social theory, which, on the one hand, held utopian promise based upon psychoanalytic insight, and, on the other hand, despaired of reason’s capacity to control the self-destructive elements of the psyche.

Posted in: History on 11/10/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Marriage systems and remarriage in 19th century Hungary: a comparative study

The paper tries to examine the intensity and possible influencing factors of remarriages in two distant communities of historic Hungary during the 19th century. It uses longitudinal data gained from parish registers and family reconstitution method and event history models for the analysis of remarriage.

Posted in: History on 11/09/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Air Cure Town: Commodifying Mountain Air in Alpine Central Europe

Because it has no value, understood by Marx in this context to mean labor value, air cannot be a commodity.

Posted in: History on 11/08/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Complexities of ‘Consumerism’: Choice, Collectivism and Participation within Britain’s National Health Service, c.1961-c.1979

This article explores the overlapping and conflicting points of contact between ‘consumerism’, collectivism and participation in Britain’s National Health Service during a period of relatively well-funded expansion during the economic ‘golden age’ of the 1960s and 1970s.

Posted in: History on 11/07/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tracing lines of horizontal hostility: How sex workers and gay activists battled for space, voice, and belonging in Vancouver, 1975-1985

In the mid-1970s, indoor sex workers were pushed outdoors onto the streets of Vancouver’s emergent gay West End, where a small stroll had operated for several years. While some gay activists contemplated solidarity with diversely gendered and racialized sex workers, others galvanized a campaign, alongside business owners, realtors, police, city councillors, and politicians to expel prostitution from their largely white, middle-class enclave.

Posted in: History on 11/06/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Women’s Work and the Politics of Homespun in Socialist China, 1949–1980

Posted in: History on 11/05/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Gender, labor, and place: reconstructing women’s spaces in industrial communities of western Canada and the United States

Focusing on western Canada and US Pacific Northwest industrial communities during the mid-twentieth century, Laurie Mercier explores how myths about place and work have intertwined to reinforce gender inequalities in logging, mining, and longshoring.

Posted in: History on 11/04/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Border crossings: Interdisciplinarity in new working-class studies

The study of working-class culture crosses disciplinary borders, reveals important insights, and builds productive intellectual networks in ways that contribute not only to scholarly conversations but also to public understanding of working-class people and communities.

Posted in: History on 11/03/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A lifelong job–the constant protection of their health

LoC | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection

The Cook County Public Health Unit: E.S. Reid.

Posted in: History on 11/02/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The beginnings of behavior analysis laboratories in Brazil: A pedagogical view.

We introduce the history of behavior analysis in Brazil at the beginning of the 1960s. The behavior analysis laboratory was selected as the focus of this investigation. The time frame of our historical account begins with the visit of Fred Keller to Brazil as a visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Posted in: History on 11/02/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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APA Monitor: Notes On a Scandal

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How a racy rumor about the father of behaviorism made its way into 200 psychology textbooks.

Posted in: History on 11/01/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Occasionally heard to be answering voices’: Aural culture and the ritual of psychiatric audition, 1877-1911

This essay argues that historians will gain a deeper understanding of the nosological ritual and the professionals who enacted it by placing internal developments of late nineteenth-century psychiatry alongside the synchronic rise of the linguistic sciences.

Posted in: History on 11/01/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Social security expenditures in Ireland, 1981-2007: An analysis of welfare state change

The analysis of welfare state change is bedevilled by controversy about how to define and measure change, and about the role of expenditure data in quantifying change. Using social security in Ireland as an illustration, this article shows that national-level expenditure data, properly decomposed and disaggregated, can identify patterns of change that are masked in highly aggregated, comparative data.

Posted in: History on 10/31/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tough love: A brief cultural history of the addiction intervention.

Popular media depictions of intervention and associated confrontational therapies often implicitly reference—and sometimes explicitly present—dated and discredited therapeutic practices. Furthermore, rather than reenacting these practices, contemporary televised interventions revive them. Drawing on a range of literature in family history, psychology, and media studies that covers the course of the last 3 decades, this paper argues that competing discourses about the nuclear family enabled this revival.

Posted in: History on 10/31/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Making of Public Labour Intermediation: Job Search, Job Placement, and the State in Europe, 1880–1940

Since the late nineteenth century, job seeking has become increasingly linked to organizations and facilities that offer information on vacancies, offer placement services, or undertake recruiting. The present article focuses on how job placement became a concern for the emerging European welfare states, and how state-run systems of labour intermediation were established between 1880 and 1940.

Posted in: History on 10/30/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Fatherhood and the non-propertied classes in Renaissance and early modern Italian towns

The relationship between father and son in the early modern period has been conceptualised exclusively in terms of submission of the latter to the authority of the former and as implying a one-way flow of obligations and resources running from the father to the son.

Posted in: History on 10/29/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Ibn Imran’s 10th century Treatise on Melancholy

Posted in: History on 10/28/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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