From April 13 till September 9, 2012 the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden (The Netherlands) presents the exhibition ‘The weighty body’… Read more Exhibition: “The Weighty Body – Fat or Thin, Vanity or Insanity”
Syllabus: Lunbeck, “The Freudian Century”
This is another installment in our series on university and college courses dealing with the history of madness, mental illness,… Read more Syllabus: Lunbeck, “The Freudian Century”
CfP Wahnsinn und Methode: Notieren, Ordnen, Schreiben in der Psychiatrie
Workshop der DFG-FG Kulturen des Wahnsinns. Schwellenphänomene der urbanen Moderne (1870-1930) Der Workshop soll der Diskussion eines methodischen Aspekts der… Read more CfP Wahnsinn und Methode: Notieren, Ordnen, Schreiben in der Psychiatrie
HooPLa on the history of psychiatry
I recently had the opportunity to lead a discussion on the topic of the mental asylum era in the nineteenth… Read more HooPLa on the history of psychiatry
New article in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
The April issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is now out and includes an article… Read more New article in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
