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Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the bas……続きを見る

The fascinatingーand eerily timelyーtale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who launched the modern science of childhood development. “Doomed from birth” was how psychologist Harold Skeel……続きを見る

In the last months of 1960, the foundations of the Kwai River Christian Mission were carved out of the jungle in western Thailand. This outreach would eventually include a hospital, a school, a stud……続きを見る

Manguinhos do Sonho à Vida retrata as origens e a trajetória do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz nas quatro primeiras décadas do século XX. Compõe-se de três ensaios que têm em comum o interesse pela assimila……続きを見る

In Zimbardo. Memorie di uno psicologo, il leggendario psicologo americano Philip Zimbardo racconta della propria vita e professione in un dialogo diretto e spontaneo: l’infanzia trascorsa nel Bronx,……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how a large public-private partnership worked to control and defeat riverblindnessーa scourge which had devastated rural communities and impeded socioeconomic development thr……続きを見る

Lungo via Tiburtina, a Roma, a ridosso della borgata di San Basilio, sorge quella che è stata la prima fabbrica a produrre penicillina in Italia, un tempo tra le più grandi in Europa, prima di trasf……続きを見る

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people wer……続きを見る

This book traces the global chemical history of cannabidiol (CBD), which is a compound that originates partially from hemp (the fiber), marijuana (the popularized term for medicinal/recreational use……続きを見る

This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed……続きを見る

Il n’y a rien de plus illuminant que de lire Lacan en partant de la tradition islamique. Pour pouvoir décrypter l'enseignement de Lacan il faut déjà isoler cette formule : Il n’y a pas d’Autre de l’……続きを見る

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century. While the historiography has focused on the role of anatomy, this study shows th……続きを見る

Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy explores how those functions ……続きを見る

In één druppel bloed zit het meest fantastische geschiedenisboek ooit geschreven. Bloed is vaak de katalysator geweest van beslissende historische wendingen en heeft de geschiedenis van de mensheid ……続きを見る

Introductory Psychology in Modules: Understanding Our Heads, Hearts, and Hands is a unique and comprehensive introduction to psychology. It consists of 36 short modules that keep students engaged wi……続きを見る

Do you want to learn how to analyze people but don't know where to begin? From the ancient Greek philosopher Galen and the four temperaments to the 1950s cardiologist Friedman and A-B personality th……続きを見る

This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W. Said and Sigmund Freud as well the relationship between psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and decoloniality more broadly. The author begins b……続きを見る

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water" - Sigmund Freud From Socrates to Carl Jung and Descartes to Daniel Dennett, this illustrated book brings together th……続きを見る

Shaping Psychology is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with a selection of the most influential psychologists working today, conducted at the end of a decade that shook psychological sc……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ……続きを見る

Rx Hollywood investigates how therapy surfaced in the themes, representations, and narrative strategies of a changing film industry. In the 1960s and early 1970s, American cinema was struggling to a……続きを見る

Kept from All Contagion explores the surprising social effects of germ theory in the late nineteenth century. Connecting groups of authors rarely studied in tandem by highlighting their shared inter……続きを見る

After the closure of Willard Psychiatric Center on New York's Seneca Lake in 1995, more than four hundred abandoned suitcases were discovered in its attic, containing thousands of personal possessio……続きを見る

Not the worst prime minister of Canada, but not by much, Tupper held office for only ten weeks during an election before reluctantly conceding he lost. As a member of Parliament he always kept his d……続きを見る

Unlike Nazi medical experiments, euthanasia during the Third Reich is barely studied or taught. Often, even asking whether euthanasia during the Third Reich is relevant to contemporary debates about……続きを見る

This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep s……続きを見る

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse abou……続きを見る

What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise ……続きを見る

The first of two volumes, this book examines Gandhi’s contribution to an understanding of the scientific and evolutionary basis of the psychology of nonviolence, through the lens of contemporary res……続きを見る

In Vaxx geeft voormalig RIVM-directeur Coutinho een objectief overzicht van vaccins, hun geschiedenis, werking, voor- en nadelen. Toegankelijk, voor iedereen die meer wil weten of een keuze wil make……続きを見る