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Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of nature. Krafft-Ebbing. Psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity
No full textHarry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of nature. Krafft-Ebbing. Psychiatry, and the making of sexual identit
Mental Health and Civic Virtue:Psychiatry, Self-Development and Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1870-2005
No full textAs a product of nineteenth-century bourgeois society, psychiatry developed in a dynamic between social-political integration and exclusion. Into the twentieth century, institutional psychiatry fulfilled two functions: a medical one (care and cure), which gave priority to the interests of patients, and a social-political one (segregation), which was geared toward freeing society of the nuisance and danger associated with the insane. Which function was most prominent varied with a country’s political constellation. From around 1840 various West-European countries adopted legal regulations for the institutionalisation of the insane. Within the margins of the constitutional state, they served to protect citizens against random deprivation of freedom and to allow for effective admission procedures to ensure public order as well as medical treatment for mental patients. The hospitalised insane fell under special jurisdiction and state supervision, which implied a suspension of their civic rights. The liberal contract society assumed autonomous individuals who were capable of serving their own rights and interests while respecting those of others. Liberalism linked citizenship to rationality, autonomy, and responsibility, which were precisely the qualities mental patients had to do without. Mental incapacity counted in fact as the opposite of citizenship as it had been articulated on the basis of the ideals of freedom and equality since the American and French Revolutions. The relationship between institutional psychiatry and liberal-democratic citizenship was ‘negative’ or ‘exclusive’ in the sense that hospitalisation in an asylum generally required legal certification and therefore the loss of basic civil rights. In the course of the twentieth century, however, a more ‘positive’ or ‘inclusive’ connection between psychiatry and citizenship was established in two ways. Firstly, the last three decades of the last century saw a growing recognition of the civil rights of the mentally ill, reflecting a shift from values associated with maintaining law and order to values associated with mental patients’ autonomy and consent. Secondly, from the early twentieth century on, in psychiatry as well as in the broader field of mental health care, psychological definitions of citizenship were advanced. Expressing views about the position of individuals in modern society and their possibilities for self-development, psychiatrists and other mental health workers connected mental health to ideals of democratic citizenship. Thus, they were clearly involved in the liberal-democratic project of promoting not only productive, responsible and adaptive citizens, but also autonomous, self-conscious, and emancipated individuals. In this article I focus on the development of mental health care in the Netherlands from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century in order to explore its relation to socio-political modernisation in general and changing meanings of citizenship in particular. Citizenship took on a broad meaning, not just in terms of political rights and duties, but also in the context of material, social, psychological, and moral conditions that individuals should meet in order to develop themselves and be able to act according to those rights and duties in a responsible way. On the basis of the four different ideals of self-development that I identify, my account is divided into four periods: 1870-1945 (self-development through social adaptation), 1945-1965 (guided self-development), 1965-1985 (spontaneous self-development), and 1985-2005 (autonomous self-development). In the last section I will elaborate some more general characteristics of Dutch mental health care in its socio-political context.<br/
Harry Pepper Fonds
No full textThe fonds consists of newspaper articles written by Harry Pepper from the Rossland Miner and the Trail Times.Born in 1913, Harry Pepper spent most of his youth in Suffolk, England, before immigrating to Canada in 1929. He spent his early years in Canada working on farms during the summer months, and in the bush during the winter. In 1940 he enlisted for the war, and joined the RoyaL Canadian Artillery, fighting in the 8th Canadian Field Regiment. During the war, Harry served in England, North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Holland. While overseas, he married, and his new family returned to Canada in 1945. He moved to Trail as a foreman of the 4X Bakery in 1946, and was later employed by Buchan’s Bakery. In 1949 he began working at Cominco, and stayed there until his retirement. Harry Pepper was incredibly active in the sports community in Rossland, and volunteered with soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and hockey. He was also an avid Curler and Golfer. He wrote a sports column for the Rossland Miner called “As I See It” and stayed with the newspaper until the building burned down and it subsequently went out of business. On his 60th birthday, he was asked to do a sports column in the Trail Daily Times called “Pepp Talk”
The Pitfalls of Political Correctness in Writing Sexual History: Politics and the Study of Sexual Science. An exchange between Harry Oosterhuis and Ralph Leck
No full textThis review article rebuts central claims put forward by Ralph Leck in his book Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science (2016) and addresses fundamental issues about the role of presentist political concerns in writing the history of sexual science. Leck’s book exemplifies the dubious trend among scholars in the history of sexuality and gay and lesbian studies to smuggle a presentist and politically correct agenda into their interpretation and assessment of the past. The fabrication of such a “usable” history may serve the identity politics that nowadays sways (and poisons) the political and cultural agenda in the United States (and increasingly in Europe as well), but it comes with the risk of hampering our historical understanding
Letter from Harry and Yaso Ueno to Michi and Walter Weglyn, June 03, 1987
No full textA letter from Harry and Yaso Ueno to Michi and Walter Weglyn in which the authors lament a United States Supreme Court and criticize Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) leader Mike Masaoka.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Letter from W. W. Bass to Harry Welch, (Phoenix) Chamber of Commerce
No full textLetter from W. W. Bass to Harry Welch protesting the proposed national park bill
The Pitfalls of Political Correctness in Writing Sexual History:Politics and the Study of Sexual Science. An exchange between Harry Oosterhuis and Ralph Leck
No full textThis review article rebuts central claims put forward by Ralph Leck in his book VitaSexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science (2016) and addresses fundamental issues about the role of presentist political concerns in writing the history of sexual science. Leck’s book exemplifies the dubious trend among scholars in the history of sexuality and gay and lesbian studies to smugglea presentist and politically correct agenda into their interpretation and assessment of the past. The fabrication of such a “usable” history may serve the identity politics that nowadays sways (and poisons) the political and cultural agenda in the United States (and increasingly in Europe as well), but it comes with the risk of hampering our historical understanding
Die Entstehung der Homo- und der Heterosexuellen: Randolph Trumbach im Gespräch mit Gert Hekma und Harry Oosterhuis
Full text linkHarry S Blaine Interview
No full textHarry S. Blaine was born in Senceca County, Ohio, on June 27, 1880. He was a retired assistant superintendent of mails for the Toledo Post Office, clock and watch collector, and an author of numerous historical papers on the history and residents of the Toledo area. He gave a family history and the reasons they came to Toledo as well as a description of Toledo in 1891. He spoke of his varied careers in Toledo, including driving a wagon for a tinner in the Old West End, and jobs at the Madison and Boody House Hotels. Mr. Blaine died in Toledo at the age of 87 on May 12, 1968
Harry Herbert Tobies Collection 2008
No full textThe collection contains essays by Harry Herbert Tobies pertaining to the history of East Prussia, particularly
Königsberg, and the Jewish community there. The essays are entitled : "Die Preussen ein baltischer Stamm;"
"Das Verhältnis zwischen Juden und Katholiken; "Israelitische Begräbnisplätze in Königsberg;" and
"Kurt Eisner : Jude oder Nichtjude." Also included is information on books published by Tobies.Harry Herbert Tobies was born on January 28, 1928, in Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Since 1954, he is an architect and
author living in Munich.Processed for digitizatio
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