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h-madness

This blog follows the history of psychiatry

Author: gae16802

Greg Eghigian is Professor of History at Penn State University (USA), where he conducts research and teaches about the history of the human sciences and medicine. He is presently writing a history of UFOs and alien contact as a global cultural phenomenon in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Call for Papers: Gloom Goes Global: Towards a Transcultural History of Melancholy Since 1850

Posted on March 3, 2014October 12, 2017 by gae16802

CFP: Gloom Goes Global – Towards a Transcultural History of Melancholy since 1850 Location: University of Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Centre… Read more Call for Papers: Gloom Goes Global: Towards a Transcultural History of Melancholy Since 1850

CFP: Fashionable Diseases (Newcastle and Northumbria Universities)

Posted on January 22, 2014October 12, 2017 by gae16802

*Extended Deadline* Call for Papers Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 An International Interdisciplinary Conference Newcastle and Northumbria… Read more CFP: Fashionable Diseases (Newcastle and Northumbria Universities)

Call for Papers: Alternative Psychiatric Narratives (London)

Posted on December 21, 2013October 12, 2017 by gae16802

Call for Papers: Alternative Psychiatric Narratives This conference will take place on the afternoon of Friday 16 May, and all… Read more Call for Papers: Alternative Psychiatric Narratives (London)

Alan Schwarz on “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder”

Posted on December 14, 2013 by gae16802

The New York Times has published an article by journalist Alan Schwarz entitled “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder.” In… Read more Alan Schwarz on “The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder”

Noll on the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the 1980s

Posted on December 10, 2013 by gae16802

Psychologist Richard Noll has just published an article in Psychiatric Times on the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s.… Read more Noll on the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the 1980s

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