The new issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences includes several papers that will be of interest to the H-Madness community:

Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson’s Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938-1942 by Matthew J McLaughlin

The Medicalization of the Transsexual: Patient-Physician Narratives in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Marta V Vicente

No Coming Back to Sick Society: The Emergence of New Drug User Segment in the Järvenpää Social Hospital in Finland, 1965–1975 by Katariina Parhi

Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” in Greece, 1980-1990 by Despo Kritsotaki