Stories
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Books
Insanity and homicide / by Dr. Ray, Superintendent of the Butler Hospital.
Ray, Isaac, 1807-1881.Date: 1856- Books
Insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts.
Date: 1855- Books
Insanity among the colored population of the free States / by E. Jarvis.
Jarvis, E.Date: 1852- Books
Insanity following exposure to fumes of mercury / by Jno. B. Chapin.
Chapin, John B.Date: 1964- Books
Insanity : my own case / [an ex-patient in the New York State Lunatic Asylum].
Date: 1856