Over two centuries, medical, political and social circles around the world have been debating the stakes of the fight against alcoholism.
In 1800, in the cause of health and public order, General Menou decrees the first French ban on the consumption of cannabis.
Scientific dream theories – as well as traditional oneirocritical discourses – have long kept dreaming outside the historical field.
The 20th century oversaw the development of emergency medicine as a new public health norm.
Lesbianism is considered in the 17th and nineteenth19th centuries, both as a physical and behavioural pathology.
The public notoriety of the “morphinée" at the end or the 19th century is a testament to the political and professional issues at play as categories were being devised regarding substance abuse.
The notion of neurodiversity appeared at the end of the 90s in an effort to de-pathologize mental illness and combat discrimination.
The term psychedelic was coined to refer to psychotic substances explored for use in psychiatry, but which remain under strict control
The lumping together of mental illness and radicalisation leads to negating the latter’s implication in individual and collective history
The category of “rare diseases” was born of the interactions between authorities, patients and the pharmaceutical industry following a consolidation of US pharmaceutical legislation.
Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act socially. Social paediatrics aim to think of child health holistically, within its environment and to act...
