T. Alexander PuutioMar 1811 minSocial HistoryWords That Bent Space: János Bolyai And His Failed Epistolary Exchange With Carl Friedrich GaussI cannot say more, only that from nothing I have created a new different world János Bolyai, letter to Farkas Bolyai describing his...
Scarlett CroftDec 24, 202315 minSocial HistoryA Rare Case: Black Women and HysteriaThis essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...
Sandra LiwanowskaDec 24, 202312 minSocial HistoryCultivating Insanity: The Role of Culture in Understanding Mental Illness in Nigeria, Kenya and China during the 19th and 20th CenturiesTo what extent are mental illnesses the product of human culture? Western practices have ensured that psychiatrists are now able to...