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Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia
AHP readers may be interested in Tomas Matza’s recent book Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. Somatosphere is also featuring a book forum on Shock Therapy, with several featured commentaries. Shock Therapy...
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ActiveHistory.ca on Women, Healthcare, Trauma & History
Beth Robertson (Carleton University), one of the editors over at ActiveHistory, has written from a Canadian perspective about the impact of the AHCA on American women. The post highlights the history of the pathologization of women’s bodies and...
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A historical quiz in Psychology Today featuring Pioneers of Psychology
On February 21st, Douglas Kendrick challenged his readers to test their historical knowledge about the field by quoting four “founders” and providing hints about their lives and careers. I expect fans of AHP would do particularly well in this...
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Mesmerism @ The British Library
The British Library has somewhat of a mesmeristic theme going on with their programming this season: On their Untold Lives blog, Christopher Green (a different Chris Green than ours at York) writes about the career of Annie De Montford, a popular mesmerist...
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Photographic Procedures at Charcot’s Salpêtrière
The stellar Remedia blog has featured a piece by De Montfort University Photographic History Research Center fellow Beatriz Pichel called The Backstage of Hysteria: Medicine in the Photographic Studio. In it, the introduction and development of medically...
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History of Psychiatry Podcast Series
Robert Allan Houston, historian of English social history at St. Andrews in Scotland is producing a podcast series with the straightforward title ‘History of Psychiatry.’ Houston’s approach is simultaneously accessible and nuanced; the...
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Neuroskeptic Review: Patient H.M.
Neuroskeptic, part of Discover Magazine’s series of blogs, recently posted a review of a new book, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. The book, written by Luke Dittrich who is himself the grandson of H.M.’s neurosurgeon...
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Mon, Jul 07 2016 6:04 AM
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The ‘gay cure’ experiments that were written out of scientific history
This article first appeared on Mosaic and is republished here under a Creative Commons licence. Robert Heath claimed to have cured homosexuality by implanting electrodes into the pleasure centre of the brain. Robert Colvile reports on one of the great...
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Allan Branstiter: Madness & A Thousand Reconstructions
Another highlight from the AHA Today blog–an announcement of a three parted post series by University of Southern Mississippi PhD Student Branstiter. Titled “Madness and a Thousand Reconstructions: Learning to Embrace the Messiness of the...
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AHA Today on Archiving the Internet
Stephanie Kingsley (over on the American Historical Association‘s blog) put up a post on the ethical and technical challenges of retaining records of the web. Summarizing the proceedings of a day symposium on the topic, Kingsley also consults with...
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Tue, Jun 06 2016 7:30 AM
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AHA Today American Humanities ‘Alliance Action Alert’
For our United-Statesian friends, the American Historical Association‘s blog AHA Today responds to the latest of perennial calls by the House of Representatives Budget Committee to end federal funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities...
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Cinema and Failed “Rat Utopia” Over on the H-Word
The H-Word blog over at The Guardian has just published a piece on the influence of rat experiments on the novel High Rise, the basis for a newly released film of the same name. As author Jesse Olszynko-Gryn notes in his post, the most influential example...
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A brief history of personality psychometrics on The Conversation
Academic journalism site The Conversation posted a short piece on personality testing that touches on the context-boundedness and reflexive aspects of such measures and how they relate to the history of the field more generally. Titled Psychology by numbers...
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Become Wellcome Library’s Wikimedian in Residence!
Phoebe Harkins, the Library Communications Co-ordinator at Wellcome, has posted an application announcement for a new contractual position of Wikimedian in Residence on their blog (flexible 6-12 months, depending on the projects the Wikimedian proposes...
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Recent Blog Post: “Surgery for Desperados” On Neurosurgical Solutions to Criminality
In a recent post on the history of medicine blog Remedia historian of science Delia Gavrus documents efforts to reform criminals through brain surgery. These surgeries, undertaken from the late-nineteenth century through the 1920s, helped set the stage...
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Mon, Jan 01 2016 5:50 AM
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