The Winter issue of JHBS is out and includes the following two articles related to the history of psychiatry:… Read more New issue – Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
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New issue – Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
A new issue of JHN is out and includes the following articles: An Approach to Nineteenth-Century Medical Lexicon: The Term… Read more New issue – Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Review – Joost Vijselaar, Het gesticht
Le livre de Joost Vijselaar, professeur d’histoire de psychiatrie à l’université d’Utrecht, est issu d’un plus large projet de recherche… Read more Review – Joost Vijselaar, Het gesticht
A Discussion about the Insanity Defense in the U.S.
In the wake of the recent shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona, The New York Times this week published an interesting… Read more A Discussion about the Insanity Defense in the U.S.
Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
By Yumi Kim Rallying cries for more comparative and transnational histories have resounded for the past two decades. Even so,… Read more Review – Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. Editors: Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
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