In this new book “Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965”, Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an… Read more Chapter: Healing and ‘Civilizing’: Community and Safety in Psychiatric Care by Tizian Zumthurm

A new paper just published on the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders deals with the history of childhood psychiatry. This… Read more Article: Autism in Baltimore, 1938–1943 by Marga Vicedo and Juan Ilerbaig

Contrairement à une idée largement répandue, les femmes entraient en moins grand nombre que les hommes à l’asile, mais que… Read more Article: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Solange Lapeyrière

Histoire et anthropologie s’associent dans ce numéro de Revue Politique Africaine qui appréhende la folie comme une « tragédie de l’ordinaire ». Le… Read more Special Issue: L’Ordinaire de la Folie

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of… Read more Book: Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815 by Leonard Smith