Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011
A. Westmore, G. Moore
Abstract:Lithium therapy for manic excitement—as devised in the late 1940s by Australian psychiatrist, John Cade—has struggled to find a home in the modern history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. This paper argues for a repositioning of lithium therapy to more closely align it with World War II, in that it provided Cade with a ‘master class in the practices and processes of experimental science on which he drew in his postwar research. By examining wartime factors involved in his development as a scientific psychiatrist, we explore the nature of the scientific enterprise and the intellectual shaping of a key participant in it.
{"title":"The 'Mad Major' and his Idiosyncratic War: Linking Military Medicine and Lithium Therapy for Mania","authors":"A. Westmore, G. Moore","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lithium therapy for manic excitement—as devised in the late 1940s by Australian psychiatrist, John Cade—has struggled to find a home in the modern history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. This paper argues for a repositioning of lithium therapy to more closely align it with World War II, in that it provided Cade with a ‘master class in the practices and processes of experimental science on which he drew in his postwar research. By examining wartime factors involved in his development as a scientific psychiatrist, we explore the nature of the scientific enterprise and the intellectual shaping of a key participant in it.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"15 1","pages":"11 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48149372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body and Mind. Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith by Graeme Davison (review)","authors":"P. Turnbull, P. Turnball","doi":"10.1353/hah.2010.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2010.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"12 1","pages":"126 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48846646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026
J. Bradley
Abstract:This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first shock treatments and now housed in the History of Medicine Museum, Rome; and a machine from Adelaide based upon H.M. Birch's original design and used to give the first shock treatments in Australia. In discussing these objects, I take a number of steps. Firstly, a short history of ECT introduces the major debates around the therapy and its history. Secondly, the machines are positioned within this history. Thirdly, the machines 'function within the galleries is discussed. Finally, I ask how these objects might be presented in a way that better reflects their history and the history of psychiatry more generally.
{"title":"A Tale of Two Objects: Electro-Convulsive Therapy, History, and the Politics of Museum Display","authors":"J. Bradley","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.22.2.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay offers a biography of two Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) machines: the Bini-Cerletti machine used for the very first shock treatments and now housed in the History of Medicine Museum, Rome; and a machine from Adelaide based upon H.M. Birch's original design and used to give the first shock treatments in Australia. In discussing these objects, I take a number of steps. Firstly, a short history of ECT introduces the major debates around the therapy and its history. Secondly, the machines are positioned within this history. Thirdly, the machines 'function within the galleries is discussed. Finally, I ask how these objects might be presented in a way that better reflects their history and the history of psychiatry more generally.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"22 1","pages":"26 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70663473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118
W. Anderson
{"title":"'Becoming a Man of Experience': Interview with C. Ruthven B. Blackburn","authors":"W. Anderson","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"15 1","pages":"118 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41812579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047
H. Graham
Abstract:This article draws evidence from a remarkably detailed report into prison conditions in Sydney that was produced in May 1861 by a parliamentary committee chaired by Henry Parkes. Although comprehensive in intent, the inquiry into this crucial aspect of the administration of criminal justice had little impact. Besides pointing out some of the distinctive features of the committee and its report, which help to explain why this historical source has not attracted much scholarly attention, the article aims to contextualise the surrounding issues. In particular, the report's limited efforts to record and ameliorate the health and welfare of prisoners encapsulated some long-standing deficiencies in government policies toward caring for the incarcerated.
{"title":"‘Made Ill by Bad Management’: The Health and Welfare of Prisoners in Nineteenth-Century New South Wales","authors":"H. Graham","doi":"10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.22.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article draws evidence from a remarkably detailed report into prison conditions in Sydney that was produced in May 1861 by a parliamentary committee chaired by Henry Parkes. Although comprehensive in intent, the inquiry into this crucial aspect of the administration of criminal justice had little impact. Besides pointing out some of the distinctive features of the committee and its report, which help to explain why this historical source has not attracted much scholarly attention, the article aims to contextualise the surrounding issues. In particular, the report's limited efforts to record and ameliorate the health and welfare of prisoners encapsulated some long-standing deficiencies in government policies toward caring for the incarcerated.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"22 1","pages":"47 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70662597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum by David Waldron Sharn Waldron Nathaniel Buchanan (review)","authors":"Georgina Rychner","doi":"10.1353/hah.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"23 1","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42286560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 1928 the Australian racial psychologist Stanley David Porteus went to northwest Western Australia and central Australia to conduct psychological and psychophysical studies of sample Aboriginal groups. Porteus was accompanied by Paul Withington, a Honolulu surgeon and explorer, and two cinematographers. Withington, presenting the façade of a serious investigator searching for evidence of Neanderthal Man, told A.O. Neville, chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, that he was also making a film about Aboriginal life for educational purposes. After leaving Australia, Neville became increasingly concerned about this film. His queries to Porteus were met with uncertainty, and he received only silence from Withington. When the film was finally released, its representation of Aboriginal life was grossly distorted. This had far-reaching consequences for future researchers in Western Australia.
摘要:1928年，澳大利亚种族心理学家斯坦利·大卫·波特斯(Stanley David Porteus)前往西澳大利亚西北部和澳大利亚中部，对样本土著群体进行心理和心理物理研究。陪同波特斯的是火奴鲁鲁外科医生兼探险家保罗·威辛顿(Paul Withington)和两名电影摄影师。威辛顿以一名严肃的调查人员寻找尼安德特人证据的形象，告诉西澳大利亚土著人的首席保护者A.O.内维尔，他也在拍摄一部关于土著人生活的电影，以供教育之用。离开澳大利亚后，内维尔越来越关注这部电影。他向波特斯询问，得到的回答是含糊不清，威辛顿也只是沉默不语。当这部电影最终上映时，它对土著人生活的表现被严重扭曲了。这对西澳大利亚未来的研究人员产生了深远的影响。
{"title":"Looking for Neanderthal Man, Finding a Captive White Woman: The Story of a Documentary Film","authors":"Geoffrey Gray","doi":"10.2307/40111543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40111543","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1928 the Australian racial psychologist Stanley David Porteus went to northwest Western Australia and central Australia to conduct psychological and psychophysical studies of sample Aboriginal groups. Porteus was accompanied by Paul Withington, a Honolulu surgeon and explorer, and two cinematographers. Withington, presenting the façade of a serious investigator searching for evidence of Neanderthal Man, told A.O. Neville, chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, that he was also making a film about Aboriginal life for educational purposes. After leaving Australia, Neville became increasingly concerned about this film. His queries to Porteus were met with uncertainty, and he received only silence from Withington. When the film was finally released, its representation of Aboriginal life was grossly distorted. This had far-reaching consequences for future researchers in Western Australia.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"8 1","pages":"69 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/40111543","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45254678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prince's Body. Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine [I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History] by Valeria Finucci (review)","authors":"Susan Broomhall","doi":"10.1353/hah.2015.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2015.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"17 1","pages":"101 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45545084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon by Paul David Blanc (review)","authors":"A. Westmore","doi":"10.1353/hah.2018.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2018.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":"20 1","pages":"171 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45592660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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