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  1. Creating a new psychiatry: on the origins of non-institutional psychiatry in the USA, 1900–50
  2. Contending Professions: Sciences of the Brain and Mind in the United States, 1850–2013
  3. Some reflections on madness and culture in the post-war world
  4. L. Stephen Jacyna;, Stephen T. Casper (Editors). The Neurological Patient in History . (Rochester Studies in Medical History, 20.) vii + 264 pp., illus., app., bibl., index. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. $75 (cloth).
  5. Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide
  6. Dopamine
  7. National Alliance on Mental Illness
  8. American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
  9. Professor William Bynum: Academic Pioneer, Role Model and Dear Friend
  10. The peculiarities of the Scots? Scottish influences on the development of English psychiatry, 1700–1980
  11. Madness
  12. 1. Madness unbound
  13. 2. Madness in chains
  14. 3. Madness confined
  15. 4. Madness and meaning
  16. 5. Madness denied
  17. 6. Madness cast out
  18. The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA Part 2: The impact of federal research funding and the drugs revolution
  19. Contested Jurisdictions: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Psychology in the United States, 1940–2010
  20. Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization
  21. Psychiatry and the Social Sciences, 1940–2009
  22. Paul Chambers, Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad
  23. Commentary: Arthur Mitchell on the statistics of insanity
  24. Left brain, right brain: One brain, two brains
  25. A psychiatric revolution
  26. Neoliberalism and the Poor Loïc Wacquant, Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2009).
  27. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter
  28. Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling (eds), Mental illness and learning disability since 1850: finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, No. 22, London and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. x...
  29. Psychiatry and Empire
  30. The Fall of an Icon: Psychoanalysis and Academic Psychiatry. By Joel Paris. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 226 p., isbn 978-0-8020-3933-0 hc. $53 978-0-8020-3772-5 pb. $29.95)
  31. Mind, brain, law and culture
  32. Failing the ailing
  33. Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry (review)
  34. Presumed curable: An illustrated casebook of Victorian psychiatric patients in Bethlem hospital; Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière
  35. An ill-defined idea?
  36. Reviews of Books:Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Lawrence B. Goodheart
  37. Roy Porter and David Wright (eds), The confinement of the insane: international perspectives, 1800–1965, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xvii, 371, £50.00, US$70.00 (hardback 0-521-80206-7).
  38. The Insanity of Place
  39. Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 (review)
  40. The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society, and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (review)
  41. Last words of a medical historian
  42. The Antidepressant Era
  43. "Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody": Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (review)
  44. Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century: A Reader (review)
  45. Mathew Thomson, The problem of mental deficiency: eugenics, democracy, and social policy in Britain c. 1870–1959, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998, pp. ix, 351, £48.00 (0-19-820692-5).
  46. Bethlem Demystified? - Jonathan Andrews, Asa Briggs, Roy Porter, Penny Tucker and Keir Waddington, The history of Bethlem, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xiv, 752, illus., ,£150.00 (0-415-01773-4).
  47. A quarter century of the history of psychiatry
  48. A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders . German E. Berrios , Roy Porter
  49. Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Keeping America sane: psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940, Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. xvi, 245, £29.50, $37.50 (0-8014-3356-8).
  50. David Wright and Anne Digby (eds), From idiocy to mental deficiency: historical perspectives on people with learning disabilities, Studies in the Social History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. viii, 238, £45.00 (hardback 0-415-11...
  51. The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization
  52. Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914.
  53. Review of: Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services, from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s, and: The Mad among Us: A History of America's Care of the Mentally Ill
  54. Psychiatrists and historical 'facts' Part Two: Re-writing the history of asylumdom
  55. Psychiatrists and historical 'facts' Part One: The historiography of somatic treatments
  56. Somatic treatments and the historiography of psychiatry
  57. Museums of Madness Revisited
  58. Museums of Madness Revisited
  59. Roy Porter (ed.), The Faber book of madness, London and Boston, Faber & Faber, 1991, pp. xix, 572, illus., £14.99 (0-571-14387-3).
  60. German E. Berrios and Hugh Freeman (eds), 150 years of British psychiatry 1841–1991, London, Gaskell for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991, pp. xv, 464, illus., £15.00 (0-902241-36-2).
  61. Bonnie Ellen Blustein, Preserve your love for science. Iife of William A. Hammond, American neurologist, Cambridge History of Science, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. x, 289, illus., £35.00, $54.95 (0-521-39262-4).
  62. From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America
  63. Michael Collie. Henry Maudsley, victorian psychiatrist: A bibliographic study. Winchester, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1988. 224 pp. + 16 plates. £30 (Reviewed by Andrew Scull)
  64. Psychiatry and its historians
  65. W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd (eds), The anatomy of madness: essays in the history of psychiatry, vol. 3, The asylum and its psychiatry, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, pp. xi, 353, illus., £35.00 (0-415-00859-X).
  66. Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  67. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor . Andrew Abbott
  68. Michel Foucault's history of madness
  69. Book reviews
  70. Joan Busfield, Managing madness: changing ideas and practice, London, Hutchinson, 1986, 8vo, pp. 406, £25.00.
  71. Sander L. Gilman, Difference and pathology: stereotypes of sexuality, race, and madness, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. 292, illus., $38.45 ($14.25 paperback)
  72. Desperate remedies: a Gothic tale of madness and modern medicine
  73. Médecine de la folie ou folie de médecins
  74. Anne Digby, Madness, morality and medicine. A study of the York Retreat 1796–1914, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 323, illus., £27.50.
  75. The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science: Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  76. Mental patients and the community: A critical note
  77. Deinstitutionalization and public policy
  78. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England . Virginia Berridge , Griffith Edwards
  79. Durkheim and the Law.
  80. Managing the Mind: A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth Century Britain (Book).
  81. Carole Haber, Beyond sixty-five. The dilemma of old age in America's past, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. ix, 181, £17.50.
  82. Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856–1905
  83. Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940.
  84. Was insanity increasing? A response to Edward Hare
  85. Madness and the Criminal Law. Norval Morris
  86. The Theory and Practice of Civil Commitment
  87. Competing perspectives on deviance
  88. Becoming Psychiatrists: The Professional Transformation of Self. Donald Light
  89. The domestication of madness
  90. Murray Levine, The history and politics of community mental health, Oxford University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. 232, £11.00.
  91. Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland. By Mark Finnane (Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble Books, 1981. 241 pp.)
  92. Madmen and the Bourgeoisie: A Social History of Insanity and Psychiatry. By K. Doerner. (Pp. 361; £16.00.) Basil Blackwell: Oxford. 1981.
  93. Joseph P. Morrissey, Howard H. Goldman, and Lorraine V. Klerman (editors), The enduring asylum. Cycles of institutional reform at Worcester State Hospital, New York, Grune & Stratton, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 356, illus., $31.50.
  94. Roger Smith, Trial by medicine. Insanity and responsibility in Victorian trials, Edinburgh University Press, 1981, pp. ix, 238, £15.00.
  95. Therapeutic State Revisited
  96. Deinstitutionalization and the Rights of the Deviant
  97. A New Trade in Lunacy
  98. Two Faces of Deviance: Crimes of the Powerless and the Powerful.
  99. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in 20th Century America
  100. Moral treatment reconsidered: some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry
  101. Prisons Past and Future.
  102. Privatization and Capitalist Development: The Case of the Private Police
  103. Privatization and Capitalist Development: The Case of the Private Police
  104. Madness and Segregative Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum
  105. Madness and Segregative Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum
  106. Mad-doctors and Magistrates: English psychiatry's struggle for professional autonomy in the nineteenth century
  107. The Decarceration of the Mentally Ill: A Critical View
  108. Circle of Madness: On Being Insane and Institutionalized in America. Robert Perrucci
  109. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical men as moral entrepreneurs
  110. Cyclical trends in psychiatric practice: The case of Bettelheim and Tuke
  111. Controlling Drugs: International Handbook for Psychoactive Drug Classification
  112. Durkheim's ‘Two laws of penal evolution’
  113. Asylums
  114. Minor Tranquilizers