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A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century
In: Partisan review: PR, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 485-493
ISSN: 0031-2525
The Salpêtrière in the Age of Charcot: An institutional Perspective on Medical History in the Late Nineteenth Century
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 703-731
ISSN: 1461-7250
The Salpetriere in the Age of Charcot: An Institutional Perspective on Medical History in the Late Nineteenth Century
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 703
ISSN: 0022-0094
The darker angels of our nature: refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis? In The Darker Angels of our Nature, seventeen scholars of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Japan and Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests, 'fake history' with expert knowledge.
World Affairs Online
Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present
"In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept, or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship"--
On violence in history
"Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker's thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicated than Pinker claims"--
World Affairs Online
Traumatic pasts: history, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870 - 1930
In: Cambridge studies in the history of medicine