The Cushing Collection at Yale University

The New York Times has a piece and a slide show presentation about the collection of brain samples stored at… Read more The Cushing Collection at Yale University

Dworkin: The Rise of the Caring Industry

Ronald W. Dworkin – Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Jeremy Bentham Professor of… Read more Dworkin: The Rise of the Caring Industry

The British Medical Association has approved a motion that supports calls from a number of other professional organizations and gay… Read more BMA on Conversion Therapy and Homosexuality

The New York Times has a small piece discussing the history of the notion of “the nervous breakdown.” Quoting historians… Read more The History of the Nervous Breakdown

Coverage of some recent violent attacks on female patients in mental health facilities in Milwaukee County in the U.S., prompted… Read more Gender and the History of Integrated Wards