Despite contemporary concerns regarding the state of Canadian children's health, historians in Canada have yet to fully explore how conventional medical experts and educators thought about, and safeguarded, children's health. This paper explores the interplay between two sources of information regarding the provision of healthy children between 1900 and the end of the Second World War in the En...

This paper describes a semantic linguistic processor which extracts the entities and their links from natural language texts. The conceptual model underlying the algorithmic developments is the extended semantic networks (ESN). This paper analyzes the use of the processor for text formalization in various subject fields: economy monitoring, criminal actions, mass media, terrorist activities (in...

The article explores how normative notions of emotions and interaction are active in constructions of the categories of "human" and "animal" in different discourses about autism: scientific and autobiographical. In the scientific discourse of autistic emotionality, a deficit perspective of autism is central. The general affective deficit discourse relies on normative discursive notions of "huma...

The article examines how recovering drug addicts employ testimonies of conversion and addiction to develop and sustain personal identity and create meaning from varied experiences in life. Drawing on 31 autobiographies of recovering drug addicts we analyze conversion and addiction testimonies in two European contexts (Serbia and the Netherlands, including a sample of immigrants). The analysis s...

Sick children were ubiquitous in early modern England, and yet they have received very little attention from historians. Taking the elusive perspective of the child, this article explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual experience of illness in England between approximately 1580 and 1720. What was it like being ill and suffering pain? How did the young respond emotionally to the anticipa...

While serious illness is a crisis in the life course of any human being, it harmonizes particularly poorly with traditional notions masculinity. Statistically, more men than women get cancer, but seem likely to communicate about their emotions and experiences public. In this article, we examine connection between cancer narratives, war combat metaphors hegemonic masculinity based on six recent ...