Claude QUETEL, Images de la folie (Paris, Gallimard, 2010, 188p) Aucune maladie n’a été plus porteuse d’iconographie que la folie.… Read more Book Announcement – Images de la folie
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Book Announcement – Les prostituées à la Salpêtrière et dans le discours médical (1850-1914)
BESNARD Tiphaine, Les prostituées à la Salpêtrière et dans le discours médical (1850-1914). Une folle débauche (Paris, L’Harmattant, 2010) La… Read more Book Announcement – Les prostituées à la Salpêtrière et dans le discours médical (1850-1914)
Book Announcement – Art in Madness
Maureen Park. Art in Madness: Dr W. A. F. Browne’s Collection of Patient Art at Crichton Royal Institution, Dumfries. Dumfries,… Read more Book Announcement – Art in Madness
Book Announcement – Transnational Psychiatries
ERNST Waltraud, MUELLER Thomas (ed.), Transnational Psychiatries. Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c.1800-2000 (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars… Read more Book Announcement – Transnational Psychiatries
Book announcement – History of Danish Lobotomy
Until recently, the history of lobotomy has been linked to psychiatry. As noted in several studies, lobotomy was frequently employed… Read more Book announcement – History of Danish Lobotomy