Les récits de patients en psychiatrie

Tales from the Asylum. Patient Narratives and the (De)construction of Psychiatry

Medical History 60(1)- janvier 2016






The Patient’s Turn Roy Porter and Psychiatry’s Tales, Thirty Years on
Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau and Aude Fauvel

Animal Magnetism, Psychiatry and Subjective Experience in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Friedrich Krauß and his Nothschrei
Burkhart Brückner

‘No “Sane” Person Would Have Any Idea’: Patients’ Involvement in Late Nineteenth-century British Asylum Psychiatry
Sarah Chaney

Making Sense of the ‘Chemical Revolution’. Patients’ Voices on the Introduction of Neuroleptics in the 1950s
Benoît Majerus

Constructing Patient Stories: ‘Dynamic’ Case Notes and Clinical Encounters at Glasgow’s Gartnavel Mental Hospital, 1921–32
Hazel Morrison

The Moral Career of ‘Outmates’: Towards a History of Manufactured Mental Disorders in Post-Socialist China

Harry Yi-Jui Wu

Books also received

C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (Singapore: NUS Press, 2015), pp. xix, 179, \$35.00, paperback,
Annick Guénel

Kara W. Swanson, Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014),pp. i, 333, \$35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0674281431.
Tanfer Emin Tunç

Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 298, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4724-4828-6. The History of Medicine in Context.
Michele L. Clouse

Nicolas Rasmussen, Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), pp. 249,\$35.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-4214-1430-2.
Gregory Radick

Matthis Krischel, Urologie und Nationalsozialismus. Eine Studie zu Medizin und Politik als Ressourcen füreinander (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014), pp. 220, €39.00, paperback, ISBN: 978-3-515-10849-2.
Nils Hansson

Valeria Finucci, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015), pp. 273, \$39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-674-72545-4.
Monica Calabritto

Benjamin A. Elman (ed.), Antiquarianism, Language and Medical Philology: From Early Modern to Modern Sino-Japanese Medical Discourses (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), pp. viii, 232, \$135.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-90-04-28544-6.
Volker Scheid

Howard Chiang (ed.), Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. xvi, 276, £70.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-07190-9600-6.
Hilary A. Smith

Fréderic Charbonneau (ed.), La Fabrique de la modernité scientifique: Discours et récits du progrès sous l’Ancien Régime (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015), pp. xiv + 248, £64.33, paperback, ISBN: 978-0-7294-1161-5.
Javier Moscoso

Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), pp. xiv, 383, \$25.95, paperback, ISBN: 9781421415024.
Michael Brown

Media Review

Look Out for ‘La Grippe’: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Interpret Information Dissemination during the Russian Flu, 1889–90
E. Thomas Ewing and Veronica Kimmerly and Sinclair Ewing-Nelson
Medical History, Volume 60, Issue 01, January 2016, pp 129-131

Introduction
Jeffrey S. Reznick
Medical History, Volume 60, Issue 01, January 2016, pp 126-126

Why Creating a Digital Library for the History of Medicine is Harder than You’d Think!
Simon Chaplin