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Historical Responses to Mental Illness and Disability

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Jonathan Andrews

Jonathan Andrews (ed.): Lunacy's Last Rites: Dying Insane in Britain, c. 1629-1939, History of Psychiatry (Special Issue), forthcoming March 2012

Jonathan Andrews: 'Death and the dead-house in Victorian asylums: necroscopy versus mourning at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, c. 1832–1901', History of Psychiatry (Special Issue), forthcoming March 2012

Jonathan Andrews: 'Introduction' and 'Classic Text', History of Psychiatry (Special Issue), forthcoming March 2012

Jonathan Andrews: 'Cause or symptom? Medical contentions surrounding religious melancholy in late Georgian Britain', in Richard Terry (ed.) 'Depression in the Enlightenment', Studies in the Literary Imagination (special issue), forthcoming 2012

Jonathan Andrews: 'History of medicine health, medicine and disease in the eighteenth century', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 34, 4 (Dec. 2011), 503-16

Jonathan Andrews: 'From stack-firing to pyromania: medico-legal concepts of insane arson in British, US and European contexts, c. 1800-1913. Part 1', in History of Psychiatry, Volume 21 Issue 3, 2010, pp. 243-260

Jonathan Andrews: 'From stack-firing to pyromania: medico-legal concepts of insane arson in British, US and European contexts, c.1800-1913'. Part 2 in History of Psychiatry, Volume 21 Issue 4, 2010, pp. 387-405

Jonathan Andrews: Andrews, J, Topp L, Moran J, Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment: Psychiatric Spaces in Historical Context. London: Routledge, 2007.


Jonathan Andrews: ‘The (un)dress of the mad poor in England, c.1650-1850. Part 1’. History of Psychiatry, 2007, 18(1), pp. 5-24.

 

Jeremy Boulton

Jeremy Boulton: ‘"The charity of our life and healthful years”?: Approaches to inter-vivos charitable giving to the poor in the metropolis, 1600-1720’. In: Smith, R, King, S, (eds), Poverty, Poor Relief and Welfare, 1650-1929. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2011. In Press.

 

Philip van der Eijk

P.J. van der Eijk: 'Cure and (in)curability of mental disorders in ancient medical and philosophical thought', in: W.V. Harris (ed.), Mental Disorder in Classical Antiquity, Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press)

P.J. van der Eijk: 'Melancholia and hypochondria - steps in the history of a problematic combination', in: H. Cazes, A.-F. Morand (eds.), Miroirs de mélancolie (in press)

P.J. van der Eijk: 'Os conceitos de saúde mental na medicina e na filosofia gregas dos séculos V e IV a.C. (com um breve panorama da Antiguidade tardia)', in: M.C.D. Peixoto (ed.), Saúde dos Antigos - Reflexões Gregas e Romanas, Sao Paolo, 2009, 11-32

P.J. van der Eijk: 'Rufus On Melancholy and its philosophical backgound', in: P. Pormann (ed.), Rufus on Melancholy, Tübingen: Mohr - Siebeck, 2008, 159-178

P.J. van der Eijk: P.E. Pormann, 'Galen, On Affected Places III.9-10: Greek Text and English and Arabic Translations', in: P. Pormann (ed.), Rufus on Melancholy, Tübingen: Mohr - Siebeck, 2008, 265-287

P.J. van der Eijk: 'De priesters van de Muzen en de zwarte gal. De Aristotelische achtergrond van het melancholiebegrip in de vroeg-moderne tijd', Groniek 176, 2007, 263-275

 

Glenda McDonald

Glenda McDonald: ‘The locus affectus in Ancient Medical Theories of Disease’, in P. Baker, K. Van ‘t Land and H. Nijdam (eds.). Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming, 2011.

Glenda McDonald: ‘Mapping Madness: Two Medical Responses to Insanity in Later Antiquity’, in: P. Bosman (ed.). Mania: Madness in the Greco-Roman World. (Acta Classica: Supplementum 3). Pretoria: Classical Association of South Africa. 2009: 106-129.


Glenda McDonald: 'Concepts and Treatments of Phrenitis in Ancient Medicine’, (Unpublished dissertation, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009).

 

Thomas Rütten

Thomas Rütten: ‘Masquerades with the Dead: The Laughing Democritus in an Observation on Melancholy by Pieter van Forest’. In: Haskell, Y (ed.) Diseases of the imagination and imaginary disease. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. In Press.


Thomas Rütten: 'Melancholy'. In: Grafton, A; Most, G; Settis, S, (eds), The Classical Tradition. A Guide. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011. In Press.


Thomas Rütten: 'Temperament'. In: Grafton, A; Most, G; Settis, S, (ed.), The Classical Tradition. A Guide. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011. In Press.


Thomas Rütten:‘Cholera in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice’. Gesnerus – Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences, 2009, 66(2), pp. 256-287.


Thomas Rütten: 'Rufus, Legacy in the Psychopathological Literature of the (Early) Modern Period’. In: Pormann, P E, (ed.) Rufus of Ephesus. On Melancholy. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, pp. 245-262.