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.
The European nationalisms have hindered the research on the most mysterious disease of the 20th century.
How does the history of epilepsy explain the negative image that this disease still sometimes suffers from?
The hookworm causes a parasitic infection the history of which helps show how the Rockefeller Foundation impacted on the United States federal healthcare provisions.
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.
During the «Great Depression» of the 1930s, psychiatric professionals diagnosed a new disease: the «psychosis of current events».
The topicality of cases of infanticide invites us to question the historical origin of the madness of motherhood.
Starting in the autumn of 1889, a strange illness strikes Western populations: the Asiatic or Russian Flu.
The eradication of smallpox illustrates the success of a proactive worldwide policy.
In Haïti, some individuals come back to life whereas they had been declared dead then inhumed.
