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Discovering palladino's mediumship. otero acevedo, lombroso and the quest for authority.
In 1888, the spiritist Ercole Chiaia challenged Cesare Lombroso to go to Naples and study a brilliant though still unknown medium: Eusapia Palladino. At that time Lombroso turned down the challenge. However, in 1891 he became fascinated by the medium's phenomena. Despite the abundant literature on Palladino, there is still an episode that needs to be explored: in 1888, the Spanish doctor Manuel Otero Acevedo accepted the challenge rejected by Lombroso, spent three months in Naples studying the medium and invited the Italian psychiatrist to join his investigations. This unexplored episode serves to examine the role of scien...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: ANDREA GRAUS Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

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

Joint meeting
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Joint Meeting Source Type: research

News and notes—winter 2016
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: News and Notes Source Type: research

Fhhs news
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: FHHS News Source Type: research

Robert Wald Sussman. The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 384 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐674‐41731‐1.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrew S. Winston Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Andrew Scull. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 432 pp. $39.50 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐69116‐615‐5.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amy Milne‐Smith Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Daniel R. Huebner. Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 368 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780226171401.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Erik Schneiderhan Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Waltraud Ernst. Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925–1940. London; New York: Anthem Press, 2013. ix + 274 pp. £60/$99. ISBN 978 0 85728 019 0.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James H. Mills Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Floris Heukelom. Behavioral Economics: A History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 238 pp. $90.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐107‐03934‐6.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tiago Mata Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

A. Kuper. Anthropology and Anthropologists. The British School in the Twentieth Century (4th ed.). London: Routledge, 2015. xvi + 152 pp.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Damián‐Omar Martínez Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

William Thomas. Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bretton Fosbrook Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Lisa Downing, Iain Morland, & Nikki Sullivan. F.ology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 224 pp. $27.50, ISBN 9780226186610.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tom Waidzunas, Julia Ericksen Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Publications by franz samelson
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research

Special section celebrating franz samelson's contributions to the history of psychology
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BEN HARRIS Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research