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h-madness

This blog follows the history of psychiatry

Category: Book reviews

Review of Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason. Madness & Race in Britain & Empire, 1780-2020.

Posted on October 17, 2024 by lenamoneme

We are very happy to present you a review of the recently published book Outrageous Reason by Peter Barham. This… Read more Review of Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason. Madness & Race in Britain & Empire, 1780-2020.

Book review: Andreas Killen’s NERVOUS SYSTEMS by Nadine Weidman

Posted on July 11, 2023July 11, 2023 by Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau

Andreas Killen, Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War. HarperCollins, 2023. 307 pp. + xxiv. Illus. Reviewed by… Read more Book review: Andreas Killen’s NERVOUS SYSTEMS by Nadine Weidman

Review of George Makari’s “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia”

Posted on April 3, 2022April 4, 2022 by Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau

Ran Zwigenberg Pennsylvania State University Makari, George. Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia. W.W. Norton & Company (US),… Read more Review of George Makari’s “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia”

Book review: Dérives, Une histoire sensible des parcours psychiatriques en Ontario français, M-C. Thifault & M. LeBel

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Eva Andersen

Book review of Dérives, Une histoire sensible des parcours psychiatriques en Ontario français, M-C. Thifault & M. LeBel, Ottawa, Presses… Read more Book review: Dérives, Une histoire sensible des parcours psychiatriques en Ontario français, M-C. Thifault & M. LeBel

Review: James Frame, Philosophie de la folie, trans. by Marie-Hélène Brunel et al. (2018), by Robert Samacher

Posted on February 1, 2019January 20, 2019 by David Freis

Frame James, Philosophie de la folie (1860) Réflexions biographiques d’un mélancolique sur la folie et son traitement moral, Postface de… Read more Review: James Frame, Philosophie de la folie, trans. by Marie-Hélène Brunel et al. (2018), by Robert Samacher

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