The medical supervision of anorexia responded to political and scientific stakes in order to normalize puberty.
The naming of this syndrome in 1981 is loaded with potent political and historical implications.
Drapotemania exemplifies the existence of psychiatric diagnoses rooted in the political stigmatisation of a social group.
Patients and physicians hold conflicting political and scientific views on the existence of an emerging disease caused by tick bites.
The re-naming of an illness is as much a political act as a scientific one, as shown by the case of lypemania
In the 19th century, nostalgia became a mortal illness that endangered French military and colonial might.
The topicality of cases of infanticide invites us to question the historical origin of the madness of motherhood.
In Haïti, some individuals come back to life whereas they had been declared dead then inhumed.
