Mirror therapy has stimulated a dynamic clinical and research agenda for the treatment of poststroke hemiparesis and phantom pain.
Making Knowledge for International Policy: WHO Europe and Mental Health Policy, 1970-2008
This paper tells a rather more complex story. Looking in detail at the efforts of the WHO European Regional Office, since the 1970s, to reform mental health policy across the region, it shows that the organisation’s main policy successes in this field were achieved, not by circulating standardised data or policies, but by creating opportunities to share holistic, experience-based and context-sensitive knowledge of instances of best practice.
A Tricky Object to Classify: Evidence, Postpartum Depression and the DSM-IV
The concept of evidence has become central in Western healthcare systems; however, few investigations have studied how the shift toward specific definitions of evidence actually occurred in practice. This paper examines a historical case in psychiatry where the debate about how to define evidence was of central importance to nosological decision making.
Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857
This article examines the reasons for and impact of Ireland’s exclusion from the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857.
Village Improvement and the Development of Small Town America, 1853-1893
This article presents a detailed historical account of the Laurel Hill Association in Stockbridge, MA, and an overview of the scope of improvement theory and practice at the national level between 1853 and 1893, the period of village improvement’s greatest impact on the development of small town America.
Inherited dimensions of infant mortality. Detecting signs of disproportionate mortality risks in successive generations
In an effort to unravel the diffusion and mechanisms of long-term fertility change, there is a growing body of literature on the intergenerational transmission of reproductive behavior.
The State, the Unions, and the critical synthesis in labor law history: a 25-year retrospect
Public Debt in the Papal States, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century
A long-term analysis of the organization and administration of the Roman public debt, as well as the people involved in it, reveals that the central government of the Papal States established a stable financial system earlier than traditionally supposed and that, unlike that of other European states, it often used the capital raised from bond issues for charitable and productive purposes.
Dictating the Suitable Way of Life: Mental Hygiene for Children and Workers in Socialist Mexico, 1934–1940
Globalized Hopes and Disillusions
In contrast to the common tendency to see war as the result of leadership decisions based on risk assessments, and political and economic considerations about gains or losses, we use a constructivist and institutional perspective to historicize and politicize the way “nation-state interests” and “nation-state preferences” even in a decision to go to war are socially constructed and culturally embedded.
‘Go and see Nell; She’ll put you right’: The Wisewoman and Working-Class Health Care in Early Twentieth-century Lancashire
This case study is used as a way to engage with a larger theme in the history of medicine, namely, the tension between orthodox biomedical science and more traditional and alternative approaches to health care. T
Beyond the Schools of Psychology 1: A Digital Analysis of Psychological Review, 1894–1903
Traditionally, American psychology at the turn of the twentieth century has been framed as a competition among a number of “schools”: structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, etc. But this is only one way in which the “structure” of the discipline can be conceived.
Abandoned and illegitimate, a double mortality penalty? Mortality of illegitimate infants in the foundling hospital of Madrid, La Inclusa (1890–1935)
This paper examines the existence of a mortality penalty for illegitimate abandoned infants in the Foundling Hospital of Madrid, La Inclusa, during the period 1890–1935, in the context of the mortality experience of the city.
Under the Guardians’ Supervision: Illegitimacy, Family, and the English Poor Law, 1870-1930
This article explores how Cambridge and Cardiff poor law unions “found” families for illegitimate children between 1870 and 1930, even when doing so meant coming into conflict with national regulations.
The cost of marriage and the matrimonial agency in late Victorian Britain
How the other half lives: Studies among the tenements of New York (Jacob Riis, 1890)
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The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World
The history of the American birth control movement and its leader Margaret Sanger continues to intrigue historians of women, social movements, and medicine.
Active Bodies: A History of Women’s Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America
Mind’s historicity: Its hidden history.
Whereas psychological research can hardly accept the idea of a changing psychological architecture, mind’s historicity seems to be commonplace among historians of psychology, at least in recent decades. Attempts to promote a convergence between psychology and history have always existed, though mainly in the margins of both disciplines.
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian England. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did – and more – in this work on the plight of industrial workers in England in the 1840s.
Doing Time On a Southern Prison Farm
Mother Jones | B Jackson
In his new book, Inside the Wire: Photographs From Texas and Arkansas Prisons, Jackson documents a society and economy whose roots were entwined with the antebellum South.
History of the Discovery of the Antipsychotic Dopamine D2 Receptor: A Basis for the Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia
The 1975 publication of Seeman et al. (Proc Nat Acad Sci, USA), reporting the discovery of the antipsychotic receptor in the brain, is a classic example of translational medicine research. In searching for a pathophysiological mechanism of psychosis, the team sought to identify sites that bound the antipsychotic drug haloperidol….The collective work is generally viewed as providing a fundamental basis for the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.
Abraham Flexner: “Is social work a profession in the technical and strict sense of the term?” 1915
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Abraham Flexner was a member of the General Education Board (GEB) and a prominent proponent of educational reform in the United States.
Organizing for partnership: the influence of the American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organisations on the British Trades Union Congress 1995–2005
Scholars typically distinguish between adversarial organizing and collaborative partnership with employers as competing roads to union revitalization. This article demonstrates that the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) borrowed organizing principles, techniques and animating aphorisms from America, but not a model of trade unionism.
Runaway Mothers and Daughters: Crimes of Abandonment in Twentieth-century Guatemala
As evidenced by laws addressing abandonment of the home and children, family preservation was paramount for early twentieth-century Latin American nation builders. The judicial record of abandonment cases from Guatemala demonstrates how men attempted to enforce their authority in the home and then enlisted state officials to uphold it when their wives or daughters defied them.
The select committee, appointed on the subject of the poor laws, respectfully report [Albany, 1823]
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New Westminister (British Columbia) Mental Hospital and Penitentiary (1870)
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Commercialized prostitution in New York City (1916)
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The defender devoted to the protection of American labor and industries
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The Roots of Insurrection: The Role of the Algerian Village Assembly (Djemâa) in Peasant Resistance, 1863–1962
While Pierre Bourdieu and other scholars have emphasized the devastating impacts that economic individualism had on peasant communalism, this study employs the djemâa as a case study of a “traditional” institution that proved flexible and enduring as rural society confronted settler land appropriations and a savage war of decolonization.
Indian Labor History
Ethnogenesis: The Case of British Indians in the Caribbean
As a concept, ethnogenesis presupposes a category of individuals that are not a group becomes a group. Most accounts of ethnogenesis exhibit two features: they confuse ethnogenesis with the resilience of ethnicity, and they describe the “emergence” of ethnic groups as a response to external circumstances.
State of New Jersey. An act for the better relief and employment of the poor of the county of Salem [1846?]
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Minutes of 1931 meeting of the directors of university councils and research institutes, under the auspices of the international relations section of the Social Sciences Research Council
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‘Paralysed with fears and worries’: neurasthenia as a gender-specific disease of civilization
ased on professional publications by Dutch psychiatrists and neurologists and on patient records from the Rhijngeest sanatorium near Leiden in the Netherlands, this article addresses the meanings and interpretations of this nervous disorder as put forward by doctors and patients.
Rules and regulations for the “Yamacraw intemperance society.”
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Founded Dec. 20, 1830.
The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History
Dispositions and Destinations: Refugee Agency and “Mobility Capital” in the Bengal Diaspora, 1947–2007
This study seeks to illuminate patterns of refugee settlement in the Bengali Muslim diaspora since 1947, which replicate global trends identified by Aristide Zolberg in new nation-states.
The politics of participation: Francis Galton’s Anthropometric Laboratory and the making of civic selves
Charles Mackay: The fall and rise of New Zealand’s first ‘homosexual’
Civil Rights Movement and the Black experience in Miami
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The Civil Rights Movement and the Black experience in Miami reverberates with both strife and triumph. In Miami, as with other cities across the United States, cultural clashes between ethnicities contributed significantly to civil unrest and racial tension. Champions of equality whose lives and hearts were committed to making Miami a place of peace and understanding between races evolved out of a deeply segregated, yet shared environment.
Centennial Series: The Adoption and Safe Families Act
The growing population of children in foster care that began in the mid-1980s continued through the early 1990s due to rising rates of family poverty, teen pregnancy, substance abuse disorders, and the AIDS epidemic. Child welfare caseloads increased and more children seemed to linger in foster care. Mounting concerns about improving children’s safety, coupled with the Clinton administration’s strong interest in protecting well-being, ushered in a new era in the Children’s Bureau. Increased collaboration and achieving timely permanency for the nation’s waiting children became strong focuses for the Bureau and the administration, yielding the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
The resurgence of breastfeeding, 1975-2000 : the transcript of a Witness Seminar held by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London
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Our Memories of the Uprisings
Frequently characterised as ‘racial riots’, the uprisings of the 1980s in Bristol, Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side were significant reactions to the politics of late 20th-century Britain. This discussion brought together key witnesses to reflect on the context and legacy of these events.
The policy agenda of the British Government, 1945-2008
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From Homes for Heroes to today…a brief history of housing in London
“Home for Heroes” is among the most famous promises ever made by a British Prime Minister and one that had a profound impact on the nation’s housing, nowhere more so than in London. Nearly one hundred years on though and the capital still faces an uphill battle to provide decent housing for its growing population.
When a woman is not a woman: how the Ministry of Pensions constructed gender in the 1950s
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During the 1950s, the Ministry of Pensions was suddenly faced with a substantial number of requests by individuals to change their gender status on their employment and pension records. Why was this? How did the (slightly) bewildered men at the Ministry deal with these requests? What does this have to do with fashion models like Christine Jorgensen and April Ashley, and why does this 50-year-old problem still persist in 2011?
A Strike Against Starvation and Terror
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The Great Depression with its national reach exacerbated the already grim economy in the coalfields. Hennen writes that “[b]y late 1931, four thousand Harlan County miners, more than one in three, were out of work. Working miners made as little as eighty cents a day and worked only a few days a month.” Plagued by evictions from company houses, no other job possibilities, and even starvation, miners and their families were no longer able to rely on aid from the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA).
The state and its unions: Reassessing the antecedents, development, and consequences of New Deal labor law
A new order of labour relations lay at the heart of the New Deal. This article seeks to re-evaluate a well-known heterodox argument about why this order emerged and an associated critique of its consequences that has now influenced our understanding of the New Deal for over a quarter of a century.
The legacy and lessons of the PATCO strike after 30 years: A dialogue
