a closer relation between the Medical Sciences and the conditions of Society and the general thought of the time, than would at first be suspected.’"(1) Important works by the likes of Elaine Gerald Grob, arguably the doyen of the field, has made this point on a number of occasions, cheerfully reciting Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1860 observation that "‘heoretically ought to go on its own straightforward inductive path, without regard to changes of government or to fluctuations of public opinion. In the view of most historians of psychiatry, knowledge about mental illness is textured by the social and political context in which it arises. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004. Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis. Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Mental Illness and RaceĬelia Brickman. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published online on
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