Describes the centralization, bureaucratization, and politicization of New York State's care for the insane that began with the State Care Act in 1890 and ended with the Brackett-Rogers bill in 1902. The State Care Act legislated hospitalization in state-funded asylums for all mentally ill pers...

Rev. of Scientists of the Mind: Intellectual Founders of Modern Psychology, by Clarence J. Karier.

Rev. of The modern art of dying: A history of euthanasia in the United States, by Shai J. Lavi

Rev. of Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, by Jan Goldstein.

Presents several reader correspondence on Christianity published on the periodical "First Things"; October 2003 issue. Salvation of the unbeliever; Punishment for sinners; Messianic faith of Orthodox Jews.; Presents several reader correspondence on Christianity published on the periodical 'Firs...

Reviews the book "The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund" by Richard Lynn.

Rev. of The Most Solitary of Afflications: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900, by Andrew Scull and Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum, 1792-1917, by Charlotte MacKenzie

Rev. of The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill, by Gerald N. Grob

Rev. of Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, by Mark S. Micale

The activities of the Euthanasia Society of America (ESA) and the Association for Voluntary Sterilization (AVS) during the 1940's-60's suggest that historians should consider birth control, eugenic sterilization, and euthanasia as closely linked elements in the American liberal tradition o...

The conflicts over curriculum reform are connected to the changes in social relations presaged by the arrival of state schooling, using the example of the London Technical School in Ontario, Canada, in the early 20th century. The author discusses the debates over "vocational" versus "...

Rev. of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America, by Elizabeth Lunbeck.

One of the most neglected aspects of the history of eugenics in Canada and elsewhere is the contributions psychiatrists made to the debate over immigration restriction. To date historians of eugenics have tended to argue that physicians in general and psychiatrists in particular supported the medica...

Discusses the views of Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury (1817-92), noted French scholar, on the psychology of the unconscious mind, suggesting that his views reflected not only conventional medical attitudes but also his disapproval of radical politics. Maury's ideas on hallucinations, dreams, and ...

The concept of paranoia as a distinct illness was proposed by Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), opposed by followers of Sigmund Freud and Adolph Meyer, and then repopularized by the authors of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The concept's continued popularity will depend on...

One of the most curious gaps in the historiography of French psychiatry is the era between the fin de siecle and the 1920's, years that overlapped the life and career of Valentin Magnan (1835-1916), a pivotal figure in the historical classification of mental diseases. Magnan was in many ways a ...

Reviews the book "Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881," by Wendy M. Gordon.; Reviews the book "Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-...

Rev. of Where I Come From, by Vijay Agnew

The Imperial Colonist, a widely disseminated journal founded in 1902, was produced by women and designed to promote female emigration to Britain's colonies and to educate Britons and colonists about the empire. Members of female emigration societies were elite British women with close ties to i...

Examines the work of various religious organizations, such as the Women's Protective Immigration Society and the British Women's Emigration Association (BWEA), in assisting female emigrants to Canada around the turn of the 20th century. Groups like these were headed by middle- and upper-cl...

Rev. of La science du mal: L'institution de la psychiatrie au Quebec, 1800-1914, by Peter Keating

Rev. of Wandering back: a history of Dock, Hills River, Mill River, Rosebank, by The Three Rivers Historical Society, and By the Old Mill Stream: history of Wellington, 1833-1983, by the Wellington Senior Citizen's Committee

Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon -- The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Genevi?ve Heller -- Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntar...

Discusses debates on the rights of women in the 1790's in England, contrasting the positions of radicals and conservatives. In the use of political concepts such as liberty, equality, and rights applied to women, each side defined these terms on the basis of their own presuppositions. For radicals, ...