Dissertations – Madness and Empire: The Ottoman Asylum, 1830-1930
Photo: Female mental patients in the Istanbul Toptasi Asylum. Date of the photograph unknown, possibly 1910s. Source: Mazhar Osman, Sıhhat… Read more Dissertations – Madness and Empire: The Ottoman...
View ArticleDissertations – Entertaining the Insane
Photo: Bethlem Hospital, The Billiard Room, Illustrated Times, 2 June 1860 Source: http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1197083 Ute Oswald: Entertaining the Insane: Recreation as… Read more...
View ArticleDissertations – Clinical and institutional policies in mental health in France
Héloïse Haliday is currently working on a thesis that might be of interest to h-madness readers. “My PhD thesis studies… Read more Dissertations – Clinical and institutional policies in mental health...
View ArticleDissertations – Cocainism in the 19th and early 20th century
Photo from: Revue des Monats 1926–27, H.4, Februar (Zuschnitt) Hannes Walter: The medical and social construction of cocainism in the… Read more Dissertations – Cocainism in the 19th and early 20th...
View ArticleDissertation project: Fascism, psychiatric hospitals and the “treatment” of...
H-Madness aims to share information about dissertation projects, too. This is what Gabriella Romano (Birkbeck) writes about her ongoing work ‘Fascism,… Read more Dissertation project: Fascism,...
View ArticlePhD research: Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century...
Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum By Mila Daskalova ‘Almost every class or clique in society has its… Read more PhD research: Printing and Periodical Culture in the...
View ArticlePhD research: Nordic Decay: The reception and application of degeneration...
Nordic Decay: The reception and application of degeneration theory and the concept of atavism in Scandinavian psychiatry, criminology, and eugenics, 1880-1922 By Rebecka… Read more PhD research: Nordic...
View ArticleProject report: ‘Signals and Signs’: Children, Medics and Child Sexual Abuse...
Post-doc project report from Ruth Beecher: ‘Signals and Signs’: Children, Medics and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family In 1980,… Read more Project report: ‘Signals and Signs’: Children, Medics and...
View ArticlePhD research: “To live mad in the central highlands (1912-1975): a social and...
TO LIVE MAD IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (1912-1975): A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF MADNESS IN MADAGASCAR 1912 was inaugurated… Read more PhD research: “To live mad in the central highlands...
View ArticleDoctoral Thesis: Psychiatrie als Diskurs- und Politikfeld: Entstehung und...
The doctoral thesis of Clemens Arthur Ableidinger on the emergence and development of the political field of mental health under… Read more Doctoral Thesis: Psychiatrie als Diskurs- und Politikfeld:...
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