Christian Bonah
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film and media studies and social and cultural history of the body. The volume focuses on visual media in the twentieth century in Europe and the U.S. that informed and educated people about life and health as well as practices improving them. Through a series of in-depth case studies,...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Der Aufschwung der Psychiatrie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ging mit zahlreichen Verwerfungen einher. Erstens war festzustellen, dass moderne Strömungen in der Kunst, Auffälligkeiten des Sexualverhaltens sowie andere unangepasste soziale Verhaltensweisen psychiatrisiert wurden. Hier spielte das in den 1890er Jahren entwickelte Konzept der Psychopathie eine wichtige Rolle wie auch der Querulantenwahn. Viele Psychiater nutzten diese...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the emergence of new forms of applied knowledge in early modernity to solve this riddle. This book focuses on the moving image as a factor of economic development. In a series of in-depth cases studies at...