By Jonathan Ablard (Ithaca College) Manuella Meyer’s Reasoning against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944 represents… Read more Manuella Meyer, Reasoning Against Madness: Psychiatry and the State in Rio de Janeiro 1830-1944 (Rochester 2017)
Category: Literature
Dissertations – Clinical and institutional policies in mental health in France
Héloïse Haliday is currently working on a thesis that might be of interest to h-madness readers. “My PhD thesis studies… Read more Dissertations – Clinical and institutional policies in mental health in France
New article – Prisoners, Insanity, and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment, 1842–52
H-madness readers may be interested in an article in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the History of… Read more New article – Prisoners, Insanity, and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment, 1842–52
New book – La fin de l’asile by Alexandre Klein
A new book was recently published that might be of interest to h-madness readers. “La fin de l’asile. Histoire de… Read more New book – La fin de l’asile by Alexandre Klein
New Book: Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style
Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945–1989 (Cambridge University Press) by Kateřina Lišková This is the first… Read more New Book: Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style
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