Anorexia Nervosa: Hilde Bruch and the Construction of Eating Disorders
Explores the construction of the psychiatric category of eating disorders in the 1970s through an analysis of the archive of psychiatrist Hilde Bruch.
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Stowaway Mosquitoes and Twentieth-century Quarantine Knowledge
Argues that following the traces of mosquitoes can provide valuable insights into the history of quarantine in the twentieth century, the relationship between medical knowledge and public health, and their ideological entanglements.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Living on Credit: Student Debt in the U.S. History of Knowledge
Presents insights on student debt from the author’s book, Leben auf Kredit, which examines various forms of precarious debt in the US from the end of slavery to the present.
An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness
Contrasts three interpretations of drunkenness within the academic discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: drunkenness as a disease, as an addiction, and as a form of degeneration and shows how these interpretations impacted the public perception of excessive drinkers.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Floating Food/Filming Knowledge: Creating Food Knowledge above the Clouds
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination
Reflects on how to use virtues as a lens in historical research, i.e., to ask what virtues underpin scholarly and political discourses and practices.
‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science
Shows how the history of “race” science can be transformed into a history of knowledge by focusing on the “collecting” process, concentrating on the endeavors of the anatomists Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), and Paul Broca (1824–1880).
Everyday Knowledge, Science, and Psychiatric Committals during Germany’s Age of Extremes
Author presents her book “Psychiatric Institutions and Society,” which probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes.
Knowledge Notes
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
