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Robert Adcock. Liberalism and the Emergence of American Political Science: A Transatlantic Tale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $49.95 (hardback). 300 pp. ISBN: 978‐199333622
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Hauptmann Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Leah N. Gordon. Review of Mical Raz. What's Wrong with the Poor?Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013. ISBN: 978‐1‐4696‐0887‐7.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leah N. Gordon Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Imperceptible signs: remnants of magnÉtisme in scientific discourses on hypnotism in late nineteenth‐century france*
This article interrogates the relations among hypnotism, magnétisme, and the domain of the wondrous through close analysis of scientific texts on hypnotism. In question is the notion that somnambulist subjects possessed hyperacute senses, enabling them to perceive usually imperceptible signs, and thus inadvertently to denature researchers’ experiments (a phenomenon known as unconscious suggestion). The article explores researchers’ uncritical and unanimous acceptance of these ideas, arguing that they originate in a holdover from magnétisme. This complicates our understanding of the continuities and discontinuities be...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: KIM M. HAJEK Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

The politics of psychiatry and the vicissitudes of faith circa 1950: karl stern's psychiatric novel
Karl Stern, MD (1906–1975) was the author of The Pillar of Fire (1951) and three nonfiction books on psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and religion. His novel, Through Dooms of Love (1960), written with the assistance of his friend and admirer Graham Greene, covers a number of topics that were to psychiatric theory, treatment, and research at mid‐century, and reflects several features of his own personal and professional vicissitudes. (Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences)
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - July 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel Burston Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

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Cheiron: the international society for the history of behavioral and social sciences
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research

Jörgen L. Pind. Edgar Rubin and Psychology in Denmark: Figure and Ground. Berlin: Springer, 2014. 228 pp. €106.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐3‐319‐01061‐8.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Simo Køppe Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Stanley Aronowitz. Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $32.50/£22.50 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780231135405.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Neil McLaughlin Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Robert J. Richards. Was Hitler a Darwinian: Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. 269 pp. $23.29 (paper). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐226‐05893‐1.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fredric Weizmann Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Margaret Lock. The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. 310 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐691‐14978‐3.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paolo Palladino Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Erika Dyck. Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 291 pp. $29.95 (copy), $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐4426‐1255‐6.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Loren Husband Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Aaron Lecklider. Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 296 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐8122‐4486‐1. $45.00 (e‐book). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐8122‐0781‐1
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vincent W. Hevern Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Efram Sera‐Shiar. The Making of British Anthropology, 1813–1871. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013. xi+255 pp. £60 (hardback), £24 (eBook). ISBN 13: 9781848933941 e: 9781781440285.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Edwards Tags: Book Review Source Type: research