'We Won't Ban Castrating Pervs Despite What Europe Might Think!': Czech Medical Sexology and the Practice of Therapeutic Castration [0.03%]
《我们不会因为欧洲的看法而禁止去势恋癖者!:捷克医学性学和医疗去势的实践》
Kateřina Lišková,Andrea Bělehradová
Kateřina Lišková
The Czech Republic holds one of the highest numbers of men labelled as sexual delinquents worldwide who have undergone the irreversible process of surgical castration - a policy that has elicited strong international criticism. Nevertheless...
Fenneke Sysling
Fenneke Sysling
This paper examines racial science and its political uses in Southeast Asia. It follows several anthropologists who travelled to east Nusa Tenggara (the Timor Archipelago, including the islands of Timor, Flores and Sumba), where Alfred Russ...
Psychiatry's 'Others'? Rethinking the Professional Self-Fashioning of British Mental Nurses c. 1900-20 [0.03%]
边缘人的专业塑造?论英国外科护士(1900-20年)的职业自我形象重塑
Mark Neuendorf
Mark Neuendorf
Despite facing manifold social and educational barriers, British asylum nurses across the long nineteenth century articulated distinctive professional identities as a means of leveraging their position in the medical hierarchy. This article...
Citizenship, Vulnerability and Mental Incapacity in England, 1900-1960s [0.03%]
20世纪前半期英国的公民身份、脆弱性与精神无行为能力状态
Janet Weston
Janet Weston
Over the twentieth century, the Lunacy Office (renamed the Court of Protection in 1947) was responsible for appointing 'receivers' to manage the property of adults in England who were found incapable of managing their own affairs. Tens of t...
The Psychopharmacological Revolution in the USSR: Schizophrenia Treatment and the Thaw in Soviet Psychiatry, 1954-64 [0.03%]
苏联的抗精神病药物革命:苏联解冻时期的 schizophrenia 治疗(1954—1964)
Benjamin Zajicek
Benjamin Zajicek
Twentieth-century psychiatry was transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by the introduction of powerful psychopharmaceuticals, particularly Chlorpromazine (Thorazine). This paper examines the reception of Chlorpromazine in the Soviet Union and ...
Prenatal Diagnosis in France: Between Regulation of Practices and Professional Autonomy [0.03%]
法国的产前诊断:实践监管与专业自主之间的平衡问题
Isabelle Ville
Isabelle Ville
Prenatal diagnosis (PND) was introduced in France in the 1970s on the initiative of medical researchers and clinicians. For many years the regulation of practices was self-imposed, decentralised and idiosyncratic. The advent of 'therapeutic...
Katharine Dow
Katharine Dow
The birth of Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube baby', has come to signify the moment at which technologically assisted human reproduction became a re ality. This was a highly mediated and visible reality, as this article explores t...
The Right to Know? The Politics of Information about Contraception in France (1950s-80s) [0.03%]
知情权?法国避孕信息政治(1950年代-80年代)
Bibia Pavard
Bibia Pavard
In 1920 in France, a law was passed prohibiting abortion, the sale of contraceptives and 'anti-conception propaganda'. While contraception was legalised in 1967 and abortion in 1975, 'anti-natalist propaganda' remained forbidden. This artic...
English Women Doctors, Contraception and Family Planning in Transnational Perspective (1930s-70s) [0.03%]
跨国视角下的英国女医生、避孕和计划生育(20世纪30至70年代)
Caroline Rusterholz
Caroline Rusterholz
This paper explores the influence of English female doctors on the creation of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the production and circulation of contraceptive knowledge in England and, to a lesser extent in France...