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Adam Cohen. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 416 pp. $28.00 (hardcover). ISBN ‐13: 978‐1‐59420‐418‐0.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adam Turner Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Alice Dreger. Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar's Search for Justice. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. 352 pp. $27.95 (hardback). ISBN ‐13: 978–1594206085.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Courtney E. Thompson Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

David J. Meltzer. The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015. vii ‐670 pp. $55.00 (Cloth). ISBN‐13:978‐0‐226‐29322‐6.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gerald Sullivan Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Jarkko Jalava, Stephanie Griffiths, and Michael Maraun. The Myth of the Born Criminal: Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2015. $27.95 (Paperback). ISBN 1442628367.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David Speicher Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox (Eds.). Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 574 pp. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN ‐13: 978‐0‐8032‐6838‐8.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adrianna Link Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

James E. Strick. Wilhelm Reich: Biologist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. $39.95 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978 ‐0‐674‐73609‐2.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer Grinten Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Dan Bouk. How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2015. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 978 ‐0‐226‐25917‐8.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Angus Burgin Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research

Before attachment theory: separation research at the tavistock clinic, 1948 –1956
This article traces the formation of attachment theory to the pioneering research program of Bowlby and his colleagues at the Tavistock Clinic between 1948 and 1956. Through a discussion of the concepts and practices that informed Bowlby's program, I examine the efforts of his team to reconstruct psychoanalytic objects according to preventive objectives and operational criteria. I discuss how the exploratory techniques that Bowlby and his colleagues were developing during these years ultimately led to the establishment of a hybrid investigative framework, in which the prophylactic requirements of mental hygiene, the psycho...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - August 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BICAN POLAT Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Monkeys, mirrors, and me: gordon gallup and the study of self ‐recognition
This article explores the work of psychologist Gordon Gallup, Jr., during the 1960s and 1970s on mirror self‐recognition in animals. It shows how Gallup tried to integrate the mental “self‐concept” into an otherwise strictly behaviorist paradigm. By making an argument from material culture, the article demonstrates how Gallup's adoption of a self‐concept is best understood as a product of his sustained analysis of the workings of the mirror as a piece of experimental apparatus. In certain situations, the stimulus properties of the mirror changed dramatically, a shift that Gallup thought legitimated the positing o...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - August 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: KATJA GUENTHER Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Bringing things together: developing the sample survey as practice in the late nineteenth century
The first sample surveys in the latter parts of the 19th century were an intellectual social movement. They were motivated by the intention to improve the economic and political conditions of workers. The quantitative survey was considered an ideal because it would present data about the workers as facts, i.e. establish a scientific authoritative truth. In a case study from Denmark, the paper shows how the first survey – a study of seamstresses – was carried out by bringing several cognitive and organizational elements together: a network of researchers, a method for sampling, the construction of a questionnaire, a pro...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - August 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: PETER GUNDELACH Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Issue Information ‐TOC
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - August 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information ‐TOC Source Type: research

On the pragmatics of social theory: the case of elias's “on the process of civilization”
This paper proposes a new approach to the study of sociological classics. This approach is pragmatic in character. It draws upon the social pragmatism of G. H. Mead and the sociology of texts of D. F. McKenzie. Our object of study is Norbert Elias's On the Process of Civilization. The pragmatic genealogy of this book reveals the importance of taking materiality seriously. By documenting the successive entanglements between human agency and nonhuman factors, we discuss the origins of the book in the 1930s, how it was forgotten for 30 years, and how in the mid‐1970s it became a sociological classic. We explain canonization...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - August 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: FILIPE CARREIRA DA SILVA, MARTA BUCHOLC Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

News and notes —summer 2016
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: News and Notes Source Type: research

Andromeda Romano ‐Lax. Behave. New York: Soho Press, 2016.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John O'Donnell Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Barry G. Gale. Love in Vienna: The Sigmund Freud ‐Minna Bernays Affair. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2016. 250 pp. $48.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐4408‐4220‐7.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Burston Tags: Book Review Source Type: research