The recent special issue of the journal Social History of Medicine dedicated to the topic “Delineating the History of Mental Hygiene in Europe” might be of interest to H-madness readers.

Here is the table of contents of this issue:

Introduction

Psychiatry, Modernity and the Politics of the Individual: The Historical Contours of Mental Hygiene
Grégory Dufaud, Nicolas Henckes, Marianna Scarfone

Fields of Knowledge under Construction: Pedology and Medico-pedagogical Approaches in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Sabine Arnaud

Ask the Doctor: Mental Hygiene Among the Young in Fin-de-Siècle Finland
Tuomas Laine-Frigren

The Model of the Observation and Treatment Hospital, and the Debate on ‘Open’ Services in France at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Example of the Esquermes Psychiatric Hospital
Marie Derrien

Outpatient Clinics, Visiting Nurses and Propaganda: Spaces, Actors and Tools of Mental Hygiene in Interwar Italy
Marianna Scarfone

Mental Hygiene in Interwar Germany: Public Health Films Between Science and Superstition
Andreas Killen

The Afterlives of Mental Hygiene: Psychiatrizing Society in Socialist Yugoslavia
Mat Savelli

Original Articles

The Practice of Medical Dissection in Third-Century BCE Alexandria, Egypt as a Heterotopia of Deviation
Ryan C Fowler

‘A System Only to Be Defended on the Principle of Positive and Ascertained Necessity’: Quarantine and Thomas Maitland’s Contribution to the Medical Debates of 1819 and 1824
Evangelos (Aggelis) Zarokostas

Skin on Trial: Experts and Expertise on ‘Skin Diseases’ in Early Modern Italy
Paolo Savoia

Book Reviews

Eve Salisbury, Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague
Julie Orlemanski

Rachel E. Walker, Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America
Alexandra Roginski

Andrew M. Wehrman, The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution
Ann M Becker

Luciano Maffi and Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Disability and Tourism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy
Anna Debè

Corinne Chaponnière and Henry Dunant, The Man of the Red Cross
Christian Mueller

Maria Ciesielska, The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto
Miriam Offer

Natasha Szuhan, The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Lesley A Hall

Sarah Dauncey, Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture
Shelley W Chan

Martha Paynter, Illustrated by Julia Hutt, Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada
Shannon Stettner

Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, eds, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600–2000
Hema Vaishnavi Ale

Ethan Pollock, Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
Olga Petri

Antonio Carbone, Epidemic Cities
Michael Zeheter

Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Anderson, Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education
Jennifer Burek Pierce

Dan Malleck and Cheryl Krasnick Warsh(eds), Pleasure and Panic: New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs
Lisa Jacobson