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.
Research, Resources, Perspectives
Explores the construction of the psychiatric category of eating disorders in the 1970s through an analysis of the archive of psychiatrist Hilde Bruch.
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.
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.
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention.
Since 1945, no German book on eugenics has been published. However, during two decades of reconstruction of the science of human genetics, which is fundamental to eugenics, the problems of eugenics repeatedly came to...
You may have heard of the antimalarial agent mefloquine during the Covid-19 pandemic, as scientists suggested repurposing the drug to combat the novel coronavirus. Most drugs are developed for the body of a 27-year-old...
In the 1850s, a physician at St. Bartholomew Hospital in London struggling with an unclear case of fever with affection of the bowels might have wanted to find information about the patient’s prognosis or...
Over four decades ago, the distinguished epidemiological psychiatrist Norman Sartorius wrote, “the history of psychiatric classification is in fact a history of psychiatry.”1 During the 1960s and 1970s, Sartorius had been at the center...
Ancient recipes are usually short texts; one can easily find more than one recipe written on a single papyrus sheet or on the page of a Byzantine manuscript. Despite their brevity, however, they open...
The early modern household was a bustling site for a range of medical activities from self-diagnosis and medication to nursing and caring for the sick to drug production. To further their knowledge about medicine...