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Selections from the Web:
Alex Blasdel: They Want Toys to Get Their Children into Harvard
Anthony Grafton: Liquor on Sundays
Dylan Levi King: The Genealogy of Chinese Cybernetics
Helen Sullivan: A City of Islands
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
Allan V. Horwitz: DSM: A History Of Psychiatry’s Bible (2021).
A good overview of some of the battles over classification and revision in the DSM since the 1950s, thought it could have stood to be more comprehensive. I was a little frustrated, for instance, about the lack of engagement with the political substance of disputes around diagnoses like MPD. Get the audiobook and don’t worry about taking notes.
Journal Articles and Chapters:
Daniel Lord Smail: “Neurohistory in Action: Hoarding and the Human Past,” Isis (2014)
Jan Golinski: “Is It Time to Forget Science? Reflections on Singular Science and Its History,” Osiris (2012)
Katherine W. Sweaney: “‘The Most Famous Brain in the World’: Performance and Pedagogy on an Amnesiac’s Brain,” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies (2012)
Layne Karafantis: “NORAD’s Combat Operations Center: A Distinctively Cold War Environment,” Information & Culture: A Journal of History (2017)
Max Stadler: “Neurohistory Is Bunk?: The Not-So-Deep History of the Postclassical Mind,” Isis (2014)
Michael Robinson: “Manliness and Exploration: The Discovery of the North Pole,” Osiris (2015)
Steven Shapin: “Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science,” Isis (2005)