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Medical History in Special Collections

This LibGuide is built to encapsulate the wide reaches of medical history. It is intended to assist researchers and students with use of archives and print materials available at the University of Arkansas Libraries.

In Special Collections

Arkansas State Lunatic Asylum Annual Report

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1632)

Proposal for the Institute for Neurology and Neuroscience (1992)

History of Psychology at the U of A (1984)

Neurology

Queen Square: a History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology (2019)

Neurology (1960)

History of Neurology (2010)

The Enchanted Loom: Chapters in the History of Neuroscience (1991)

Necessary Nonsense: Aesthetics, History, Neurology, Psychology (2018)

The Neurological Patient in History (2012)

A History of Nerve Functions: from Animal Spirits to Molecular Mechanisms (2004)

Child Neurology: Its Origins, Founders, Growth, and Evolution (2021)

Addiction

The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (1981)

Brain-Robbers: How Alcohol, Cocaine, Nicotine, and Opiates have changed Human History (2014)

Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain, 1945-2000 (2007)

Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (2011)

Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America (2001)

The Social Life of Opium in China (2005)

Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001)

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in North America (2017)

Addiction (1974)

On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory (2024)

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (2023)

The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control (1999)

Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR (2022)

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard (2018)

General Psychology/Psychiatry

The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, Technology, and Therapy (2017)

Disturbances of the Mind (2009)

Internationalizing the History of Psychology (2006)

Our Minds, Our Selves: a Brief History of Psychology (2018)

A History of Psychology in Ten Questions: Lessons for Modern Life (2023)

History of Psychology Through Symbols: From Reflective Study to Active Engagement (2023)

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology: Global Perspectives (2012)

A Conceptual History of Psychology: Exploring the Tangled Web (2015)

The Global Origins of Psychology: Neurology, Language, and Culture in the Ancient World (2023)

A History of Ancient Psychiatry (1986)

From Madness to Mental Health: Psychiatric Disorder and its Treatment in Western Civilization (2010)

A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry (2005)

Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry (2014)

Global Focuses

Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice (2018)

The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870-1970 (2014)

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era (2015)

Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War: Revolution, Emancipation and re-imagining the Human Psyche (2022)

Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing (2020)

Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (2020)

Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth-Century India (2015)

The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2017)

Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum (2021)

Bad History of Psychology

Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry (2013)

Keeping America Sane Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940 (2018)

A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability": The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (2011)

The Mismeasure of Man (1981)

Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War of Terrorism (2011)

Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900 (2018)

Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community (2013)

Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages (2016)