Title International relations in psychiatry : Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II / edited by Volker Roelcke, Paul J. Weindling, and Louise Westwood

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) : illustrations Series Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 16 Rochester studies in medical history. 1526-2715 Contents Inspecting Great Britain : German psychiatrists' views of British asylums in the second half of the nineteenth century / Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach -- Permeating national boundaries : European and American influences on the emergence of 'medico-pedagogy' in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Mark Jackson -- Organizing psychiatric research in Munich (1903-1925) : a psychiatric zoon politicon between state bureaucracy and American philanthropy / Eric J. Engstrom -- Germany and the making of 'English' psychiatry : the Maudsley Hospital, 1908-1939 / Rhodri Hayward -- Patterns in transmitting German psychiatry to the United States : Smith Ely Jelliffe and the impact of World War I / John C. Burnham -- 'Beyond the clinical frontiers' : the American mental hygiene movement, 1910-1945 / Hans Pols -- Mental hygiene in Britain during the first half of the Twentieth century : the limits of international influence / Mathew Thomson -- Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920-1935 : mutual perceptions and relations, and the case of Eugen Kahn (1887-1973) / Volker Roelcke -- Explorations of Scottish, German, and American psychiatry : the work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the treatment of noncertifiable mental disorders in England, 1899-1939 / Louise Westwood -- Welsh psychiatry during the interwar years, and the impact of American and German inspirations and resources / Pamela Michael -- Alien psychiatrists : the British assimilation of psychiatric refugees, 1930-1950 / Paul J. Weindling Summary "The Decades Around 1900 were crucial in the evolution of modern medical and social sciences, and in the formation of various national health services systems. The modern fields of psychiatry and mental health care are located at the intersection of these spheres. There emerged concepts, practices, and institutions that marked responses to challenges posed by urbanization, industrialization, and the formation of the nation-state. These psychiatric responses were locally distinctive, and yet at the same time established influential models with an international impact. In spite of rising nationalism in Europe, the intellectual, institutional, and material resources that emerged in the various local and national contexts were rapidly observed to have had an impact beyond any national boundaries. In numerous ways, innovations were adopted and refashioned for the needs and purposes of new national and local systems." "International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II brings together hitherto separate approaches from the social, political, and cultural history of medicine and health care and argues that modern psychiatry developed in a constant, though not always continuous, transfer of ideas, perceptions, and experts across national borders." ""The contributors to this volume demonstrate convincingly that any modern history of knowledgea︣nd more specifically that of scientific disciplines and medicine as practiced in hospitals and asylumsn︣eeds to take forms of transnational communication into account."--Andreas Daum, author of Kennedy in Berlin (2008) and Popularizing Science in the Nineteenth Century (German, 2002)." "'This is a pioneering effort to advance the historiography of one significant branch of medicine, psychiatry, beyond perspectives limited to any single nation ... The volume has the potential to affect both the history of medicine in general and the historiography of psychiatry in particular:M︣itchell Ash, coeditor of Forced Migration and Scientific Change: Emigre German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (1996)"--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Psychiatry -- History -- 20th century Comparative psychiatry -- History -- 20th century Cross-cultural studies. Interprofessional relations. Cross-Cultural Comparison History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Internationality Interprofessional Relations Psychiatry -- history HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain) SCIENCE -- History. Interprofessional relations. Cross-cultural studies. Comparative psychiatry. Psychiatry. SUBJECT Germany https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject Großbritannien Deutschland USA. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Roelcke, Volker, 1958- editor. Weindling, Paul, editor. Westwood, Louise, 1947- editor. ISBN 9781580467612 158046761X

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