Suitcases as symbols of the struggle for dignity and civil rights of people with mental illnesses
Devised to control the female body, the corset has had, between the 18th and the 20th century, many detractors.
The appearance of new syringe models in the 1850s questions the conditions of the development of medical techniques.
The relationship to sugar in our society is sustainably anchored on a difference between genders.
Time-measurement devices in clinical and experimental settings have historically tended to pathologize mental “slowness” and normalize “speed” as a signifier of mental health.
There are policies of the dream, as illustrated by the different ways of apprehending the dreams in the Amerindian populations.
The bed is not a simple object structuring the hospital space. It is also a therapeutic instrument and an indicator for public authorities to guide hospital policy.
