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Terry Goldie. The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money. Vancouver; Toronto: UBC Press, 2014. 276 pp. CAN$29.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780774827935.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lisa Downing Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Michel Jouvet. De la Science et des Rȇves. Memoires d’ un Onirologue [Of Science and Dreams: Memoirs of a Sleep Researcher]. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2013. 312 pp. €24.90 (paper). ISBN: 978‐2‐7381‐7712‐4.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Csaba Pléh Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Franz samelson and a conundrum
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: JILL MORAWSKI Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

“safeguarding the interests of the state” from defective delinquent girls
The 1911 mental classification, “defective delinquent,” was created as a temporary legal‐medical category in order to identify a peculiar class of delinquent girls in a specific institutional setting. The defective delinquent's alleged slight mental defect, combined with her appearance of normalcy, rendered her a “dangerous” and “incurable” citizen. At the intersection of institutional history and the history of ideas, this article explores the largely overlooked role of borderline mental classifications of near‐normalcy in the medicalization of intelligence and criminality during the first third of the twe...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kate E. Sohasky Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The weber thesis of calvinism and capitalism—its various versions and their “fate” in social science
The paper identifies and examines various multiple renditions of the so‐called Weber Thesis of an historical association and convergence between ascetic Protestantism, above all Calvinism, and the emergence and development of modern capitalism as an economic spirit and system. Specifically, it detects at least four different versions and formulations or interpretations, thus casting doubt in the common view of the Weber Thesis as a single and monolithic theory or hypothesis. The paper also considers the status of the multiple versions of the Weber Thesis in post‐Weberian and contemporary sociology and related disciplin...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: MILAN ZAFIROVSKI Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

“the man who committed a hundred burglaries”: mark benney's strange and eventful sociological career
This article examines the life and career of the sociologist Mark Benney. It describes the processes, not all of them edifying, by which he made the transition from life as a career criminal, via literature, to become a sociologist first at the London School of Economics and then at the University of Chicago. Benney's career is then used to illuminate particular episodes in the history of sociology, including the attempt to introduce into British sociology in the period after the Second World War quantitative survey techniques of the kind that were then becoming more widely used in the United States, and his work with Davi...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - September 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Raymond M. Lee Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Knowledge ecologies, “supple” objects, and different priorities across women's and gender studies programs and departments in the united states, 1970–2010
This article examines the evolving connections between local conditions and knowledge processes in women's and gender studies, a research field in the social sciences and humanities. Data are historical records from five early‐adopting women's and gender studies units in the United States and interviews with affiliated professors. In their formative years, these programs were consistent in their intellectual content. Scholars across sites defined the purpose of women's studies similarly: to address the lack of research on women and social problems of sex inequality. Gradually, scholars incorporated a range of analytic ca...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - September 3, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christine Virginia Wood Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: News and Notes Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: FHHS News Source Type: research

Lise Wallach and Michael A. Wallach. Seven Views of Mind. New York, NY: Psychology Press, 2013. 112 pp. $52.95 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐84872‐997‐1.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeffery Yen Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Jamie Cohen‐Cole. The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780226092164.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joy Rohde Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Sabine Arnaud. L'invention de l'hystérie au temps des Lumières (1670–1820). Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2014. 350 pp. 24€ (paper). ISBN‐13: 978‐2‐7132‐2419‐5.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carolyn Purnell Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

James Turner. Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780691145648.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Martin‐Nielsen Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

R. Hayward. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care 1880–1970. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 268 pp. £65. ISBN: 9781780937267.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Hubbard Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

A. Najmabadi. Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same‐Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. 418 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐5543‐4.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darryl B. Hill Tags: Book Review Source Type: research