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Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame
Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.
Doing psychiatry in postwar Europe
Doing psychiatry engages with the history of European psychiatry in the second half of the twentieth century through a close and fresh look at the practices that contributed to reshape the mental health field. Case studies from across Europe allow readers to appreciate how new ‘ways of doing’ contributed to transform the field, beyond the watchwords of deinstitutionalisation, the prescription of neuroleptics, centrality of patients and overcoming of asylum-era habits. Through a variety of sources and often adopting a small-scale perspective, the chapters take a close look at the way new practices emerged and at how they installed themselves, eventually facing resistance, injecting new purposes and contributing to enlarging psychiatry’s fields of expertise, therefore blurring its once-more-defined boundaries.
Material Cultures of Psychiatry
In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.
Gastrofascism and Empire
Food stood at the centre of Mussolini's attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa. Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming Ethiopia into Italy's granary to establish self-sufficiency, demographic expansion and strengthen Italy's international political position. While these plans failed, the extensive food exchanges and culinary hybridizations between Ethiopian and Italian food cultures thrived, and resulted in the creation of an Ethiopian-Italian cuisine, a taste of Empire at the margins. In studying food in short-lived Italian East Africa, Gastrofascism and Empir...
A Short History of Western Ideology
We are arguably living in a 'postideological' era. However, when we tune into the TV news we can hear political leaders talk about 'advanced' societies, geopolitical experts suggest 'humanitarian' interventions, and sober events presenters qualify a murder as 'barbaric'. What does this mean? In this comprehensive book, Rolf Petri reveals how our everyday political language is full of ideological representations of the world, and places them in an accessible historical narration. From the secularization of Europe and the Enlightenment project of 'civilization' to the contemporary preoccupation with ecological catastrophes or the end of history, A Short History of Western Ideology carves out t...
Asfuriyyeh
The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region. &ʿA&ṣf&ūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East. It closed its doors in 1982, a victim of Lebanon's brutal fifteen-year civil war. In this book, Joelle Abi-Rached uses the rise and fall of &ʿA&ṣf&ūriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon.
Il mestiere di storico (2021) vol. 2
Riflessioni Costanza Bonelli, Scienza, medicina e Imperi coloniali tra XIX e XX secolo Rassegne e letture Anna Tonelli, Alle origini del sentimento repubblicano Luigi Lacchè, Il processo costituente italiano Bruno Ziglioli, Il terremoto irpino tra memoria e ricostruzione Mario Isnenghi, La leva in Italia Vinzia Fiorino, Cogliere la coerenza interna alle configurazioni culturali Simona Merlo, Intellettuali in Ucraina: la generazione degli anni ’60 Dario Fazzi, Il progetto imperiale statunitense Lucy Riall, Italians and images of «Mediterranean-ness» Giorgio Del Zanna, Processi identitari nel Medio Oriente Ilaria Pavan, Il fascista senza qualità Il discorso della cittadinanza Tiziana Noce, La cittadinanza diseguale Marcella Aglietti, Cittadinanze irrisolte, negate, plurime Fonti e strumenti della ricerca Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, L’amministrazione policratica dell’occupazione Memorie e documenti I libri del 2020 / 2 Indici Indice degli autori e dei curatori Indice dei recensori
Fare l'impossibile
«Noi psichiatri abbiamo il vantaggio che in qualunque istituzione psichiatrica andiamo, troviamo sempre la stessa faccia, lo stesso malato, cioè il malato dell’ospedale psichiatrico. Hanno tutti la stessa faccia, sembrano che abbiano tutti la stessa malattia: in effetti questa malattia è il prodotto dell’istituzione». A cento anni dalla nascita di Franco Basaglia, quale traiettoria è possibile tracciare di una delle personalità più influenti della psichiatria italiana del XX secolo? Questo libro prova a rispondere con l’aiuto di tre nuovi documenti emersi dagli archivi e mai pubblicati fino a ora. Tre inediti che consentono di entrare nel vivo dell’esperimento che nei primi an...
Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present
This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting field. The chapters in this volume deal with physical sources that might be encountered in the archive, such as asylum casebooks, artwork, material artefacts, post-mortem records, more general types of source including medical journals, literature, public enquiries, and key themes within the field such as feminist sources, activist and survivor sources. Offering practical advice and examples for the novice, as well as insightful suggestions for the experienced scholar, the authors provide worked-through example...
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States, 1750–1850
This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities—Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa—Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth century, even as the abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750–1850, focusing on two juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period, when the Italian states (with the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery; and after the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic relations between the Italian states, France and Great Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition, this book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in the Italian states.
