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Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually
and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures,
underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations
and worldwide health campaigns. Psychiatric epidemiology, like the
epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes
increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of nations and worldwide
health campaigns. Despite the field's importance, this is the first
volume of historical scholarship addressing psychiatric
epidemiology. It seeks to comprehensively trace the development of
the discipline and the mobilization of its constructs, methods, and
tools to further social ends. It is through this double
lens-conceptual and social-that it envisions the history of
psychiatric epidemiology. Furthermore, its chapters constitute
elements for that history as a global phenomenon, formed by
multiple approaches. Those numerous historical paths have not
resulted in a uniform disciplinary field based on a common
paradigm, as happened arguably in the epidemiology of
cardiovascular disease and cancer, but in a plurality of
psychiatric epidemiologies driven by different intellectual
questions, political strategies, reformist ideals, national
cultures, colonial experiences, international influences, and
social control objectives. When examined together, the chapters
depict an uneven global development of epidemiologies formed within
distinct political-cultural regions but influenced by the
transnational circulation and selective uptake of concepts,
techniques, and expertise. These moved through multidirectional
pathways between and within the Global North and South. Authored by
historians, anthropologists, and psychiatrists, chapters trace this
complex history, focusing on Brazil, Nigeria, Senegal, India,
Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, as
well as multicountry networks.
How can historians make sense of visions, hauntings and demonic
possession? Do miraculous events have any place in a world governed
by cause and effect? In Resisting history, Rhodri Hayward examines
the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and
psychologists to create a consistent and rational narrative capable
of containing the inexplicable. This lucid and provocative account
argues that the psychological theories we routinely use to make
sense of supernatural experience were born out of struggles between
popular mystics and conservative authorities. Hayward's lively
analysis of the Victorian disciplines of Christology, psychology
and psychical research reveals how our modern concept of the
subconscious was developed as a tool for policing religious
inspiration. Written in a clear and accessible style, Resisting
history provides a fresh and entertaining perspective for anyone
interested in questioning the concepts that underlie historical
writing and psychological thought today. -- .
Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over
modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of
how this psychological sensibility came to be established. The
Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970
will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing
inevitable about the current connection between health, identity
and personal history. It traces the changing conception of the
psyche in Britain over the last two centuries and it demonstrates
how these changes were rooted in transformed patterns of medical
care. The shifts from private medicine through to National
Insurance and the National Health Service fostered different kinds
of relationship between doctor and patient and different
understandings of psychological distress. The Transformation of the
Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 examines these
transformations and, in so doing, provides new critical insights
into our modern sense of identity and changing notions of health
that will be of great value to anyone interested in the modern
history of British medicine.
Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over
modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of
how this psychological sensibility came to be established. The
Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970
will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing
inevitable about the current connection between health, identity
and personal history. It traces the changing conception of the
psyche in Britain over the last two centuries and it demonstrates
how these changes were rooted in transformed patterns of medical
care. The shifts from private medicine through to National
Insurance and the National Health Service fostered different kinds
of relationship between doctor and patient and different
understandings of psychological distress. The Transformation of the
Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 examines these
transformations and, in so doing, provides new critical insights
into our modern sense of identity and changing notions of health
that will be of great value to anyone interested in the modern
history of British medicine.
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