‘Imperfect Children’ in Historical Perspective

Prognostic Disclosures to Children: A Historical Perspective.

Prognostic disclosure to children has perpetually challenged clinicians and parents. In this article, we review the historical literature on prognostic disclosure to children in the United States using cancer as an illness model. Before 1948, there was virtually no literature focused on prognostic disclosure to children. As articles began to be published in the 1950s and 1960s, many clinicians ...

Spermatozoa: A Historical Perspective

The 100,000th scientific article on the subject of spermatozoa was recently published. Many studies have evaluated the characteristics of this important cell leading to great discoveries. Since its first observation and description in 1677, many important characteristics have been described regarding this highly fascinating gamete. In this review, our objective has been to provide a historical ...

Physical punishment of children in Denmark: an historical perspective.

Vivisection in historical perspective

Burnham, who did much in the 1960s to explore the relation between the new psychologies and the ideals of social management gaining prominence in the "Progressive Era". Essays included here discuss the development of "expert" measurement techniques for human attributes from Cattell's anthropometric studies in the 1890s, through Goddard's (1910) use of Binet's work to classify the feeble-minded,...

Psychotherapy in historical perspective

This article will briefly explore some of the ways in which the past has been used as a means to talk about psychotherapy as a practice and as a profession, its impact on individuals and society, and the ethical debates at stake. It will show how, despite the multiple and competing claims about psychotherapy's history and its meanings, historians themselves have, to a large degree, not attended...