{"title":"Recovery oder die Geschichte der psychiatrischen Heilung von ihrem Ende her erzählt?","authors":"Max Gawlich, Ralph Höger","doi":"10.25162/MHJ-2021-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/MHJ-2021-0001","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction to this special issue is a programmatic attempt to historicise the research object of psychiatric ‚cure‘, articulating possible paths of historical analysis and current research desiderata. Psychiatry’s structural, pharmacological and conceptual change after the Second World War is accompanied by the redefinition of therapeutic success. Under the heading of ‘recovery’ many movements gathered that pursue alternative notions of success. Thus, a narrow concept of cure that predominantly follows medical standards has lost its function as an implicit and explicit guideline of psychiatric practice. Starting from this observation, this special issue investigates into the transformation processes of cure during the 19th and 20th century. For this purpose, our introduction maps out cure as a historical object of research, assessing its significance in clinical practice and psychiatrists’ theoretical reflections. After systematising the sparse previous research findings in a literature review and building on the results, we outline some heuristic demarcations from the psychiatric practices of diagnosis, care and prevention.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":"3-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82723245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating the limits of therapy","authors":"Nicolas Henckes","doi":"10.25162/MHJ-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/MHJ-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"84 1","pages":"79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76796108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lebenswege deutsch-jüdischer Ärzte: berufsbiografisch und persönlich","authors":"Barbara Stambolis","doi":"10.25162/mhj-2020-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/mhj-2020-0014","url":null,"abstract":"The doctors presented here - Max Marcus, Julius Kleeberg and Siegfried Rosenbaum - belonged to an age group of highly qualified German Jews who had fled to Palestine/ Israel because of the Nazi persecution. There, they set standards in surgery, pediatrics and internal medicine and contributed to the international reputation of private and university-academic healthcare in Israel. From this point of view, they were extremely successful, but their biographies are overshadowed by traumatic experiences in Germany. They all had a lifelong feeling of ambiguity, of not belonging, or of the impression of living in several worlds. On the basis of extensive research, this article focuses on questions about the individual and exemplary of their life paths.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"318-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75994757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"„the healthiest way of being ill“?","authors":"Mona Baie","doi":"10.25162/mhj-2020-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/mhj-2020-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Susan Sontag’s essays Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors continue to provide a productive basis for scientific work at the interface of medical history, linguistics, and cultural studies. This article transfers the main contentual observations of the two texts to a German-language medium by examining their occurrence in the journal „Der Spiegel“ during the period from 1973 to 2013. Hence, insights into both public representation and illness metaphors of cancer and AIDS during this period are gained. The results are discussed in terms of their historical context as well as their appropriateness with regard to the public responsibility of „Der Spiegel“, using media ethics and impulses from oncological research as theoretical foundations.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"338-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77789240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Der Aphorismus als Wissenstechnik","authors":"V. Hess","doi":"10.25162/MHJ-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/MHJ-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"How can general conclusions be obtained from particular observations – and how can doctors deduce the necessary individual treatment of a patient from such generalizations, rules or laws? This is the central question of every scientific medicine. Today, statistical metaanalyses promise evidence-based medicine, in earlier times many trusted the genius of a philosophical physician, and in the early modern era, hundreds of observations bound together should show the right methodus medendi . However, there is one of the oldest literary genres hardly discussed in historiography or medical practice: The aphorism which has experienced a remarkable conjunction in the early 18th century in the form of tabular observations. This article shows how the knowledge of aphorism, condensed into short sentences, relates to other forms of medical reasoning and action. The aphoristic way of knowing cannot be understood as a peculiar element of Neohippocratism at that time, as the example of meteorological medicine demonstrates. Instead, the paper will argue that the aphorism represents an independent form of medical knowledge that condenses empirical experiences to knowing of action-related maxims and rules.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"590 1","pages":"102-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77085372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hiding in Plain View: Burial and Commemoration of Children’s Specimens from Wittenau in the “Gräberfeld/Cemetery X” Tübingen, 4 and 8 July 1990","authors":"P. Weindling","doi":"10.25162/mhj-2020-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/mhj-2020-0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81495117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handwriting, Inferiority and Race: Graphopathology from Its Beginnings to the Time of National Socialism Handschrift, Minderwertigkeit und Rasse: Die Schriftpathologie von Ihren Anfängen Bis Zur Zeit Des Nationalsozialismus","authors":"I. Polianski","doi":"10.25162/MHJ-2019-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/MHJ-2019-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Towards the end of the nineteenth century handwritings became a new epistemic object of medicine. First within the psychiatry and then within the forensic and general medicine there have been various attempts to establish the graphology as a credible diagnostic method. Finally, during the years of National Socialism attempts were made, to use handwritings for the purposes of racial hygienic selection. By using various sources, the paper explores specific interrelationships between medical and graphological discourse, showing how handwritings were instrumentalized for political purposes.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"134 1","pages":"108-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86318917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Engineering of Suicide","authors":"M. Myllykangas","doi":"10.25162/MHJ-2019-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/MHJ-2019-0005","url":null,"abstract":"By the beginning of the twenty-first century, suicide is often discussed in relation to the concept of risk. According to psychiatric understanding of suicide, the risk of suicide is increased under certain circumstances and in connection to mental disorders. Thinking of suicide in terms of risk factors has a historical background in the rise of psychiatric epidemiology during decades after the Second World War. In the case of Finland, the emergence of psychiatric epidemiology of suicide in the 1960s and 1970s also coincides with the building of a welfare state through active use of social planning. In this article, the author examines how social engineering thinking, criticism of biologically oriented psychiatry, and psychiatric epidemiology changed the way how suicide was perceived in the discourse of psychiatry.","PeriodicalId":40892,"journal":{"name":"Medizinhistorisches Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90651024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}