{"title":"Outpatient Clinics, Visiting Nurses and Propaganda: Spaces, Actors and Tools of Mental Hygiene in Interwar Italy","authors":"Marianna Scarfone","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad056","url":null,"abstract":"Summary In interwar Italy, the mental hygiene movement enacted a series of measures in order to control, prevent and contain psychiatric diseases. Developing as a pillar of social medicine, mental hygiene represented a challenging outlook for the psychiatric field, as far as it filled a gap in existing assistance, providing outpatient facilities and avoiding the pitfalls of hospitalisation’s legal constraints. This article analyses the debates aimed at reforming the 1904 law on asylums and the issues at stake, as autonomy from judiciary powers and screening and follow-up in free consultations. It then examines the functioning of dispensaries that responded to these issues, the role of the visiting nurses, as well as that of propaganda deployed by the local sections of The League of Mental Hygiene. Relying on diverse case studies, it aims at reopening the debate on a controversial phase of Italian sociopolitical history through the analysis of psychiatric practices.","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139410577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catherine Mas, Culture in the Clinic: Miami and the Making of Modern Medicine","authors":"Eram Alam","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139445732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin, Medicine and the Law Under the Roman Empire","authors":"Ido Israelowich","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"32 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139446235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David Howes, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law","authors":"Brian Glenney","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fields of Knowledge under Construction: Pedology and Medico-pedagogical Approaches in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Sabine Arnaud","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad063","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Examining the work of Georges Paul-Boncour and Jean Philippe, two now almost forgotten physicians active from the turn of the twentieth century on in the medical and educational field of ‘school hygiene’ for so-called abnormal children, this article exemplifies a specific current in psychiatry whose terms first kept oscillating between medico-pedagogical treatment and therapeutic hygiene. I investigate how Paul-Boncour and Philippe’s interest in abnormal children led them to challenge education as a whole. By attempting to individualise education, the two doctors were swimming against the tide of regular schooling, which evaluated children on their ability to fit in with others and fulfil preset expectations. The conflicts between these physicians and their contemporaries (teachers, psychologists, lawyers) attest the emergence of a dimension in psychiatry that was rooted in collaboration with teachers, as doctors and teachers worked together for the full development of ‘pedology’, the scientific study of children’s development.","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139051721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heidi Hausse, The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany","authors":"Jan Becker","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"520 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alberto Ortiz. Raising the Living Dead: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean","authors":"Jennifer Lambe","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"43 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vivek Neelakantan (ed), The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia: Perspectives from the Cold War to Covid-19","authors":"Monica Saavedra","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"23 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139271136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, <i>Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021</i>","authors":"Mirela David","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad087","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 Get access Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 248. £85 hbk. ISBN 978-1-3165-1531-0. Mirela David Mirela David University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada mirela.david@usask.ca Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad087, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad087 Published: 06 November 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"287 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135685223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kimberly Mair, <i>The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain</i>","authors":"Ingrid de Zwarte","doi":"10.1093/shm/hkad086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad086","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Kimberly Mair, The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain Get access Kimberly Mair, The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain. The Mass-Observation Critical Series. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. xxiv + 219. £76.50 hbk. ISBN 978-1-3501-0691-8. Ingrid de Zwarte Ingrid de Zwarte Economic and Environmental History, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands ingrid.dezwarte@wur.nl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad086, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad086 Published: 06 November 2023","PeriodicalId":21922,"journal":{"name":"Social History of Medicine","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135723566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}