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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: HervĂŠ Guillemain, âSchizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of Historyâ (Alma, 2018)
Description: Schizophrènes au XXe siècle: des effets secondaires de lâhistoire [Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History] is a strong argument in support of the history of psychiatry âfrom below.â Using vast archival resources and ample patient files, HervĂŠ Guillemain demonstrates convincingly how schizophrenia in France was a socially constructed categoryâone that circumscribed and further stigmatized individuals who were already marginalized and left behind in a changing political, economic, and social landscape. Guillemain follows the surprising twists and turns proffered by his sources, and in so doing, reveals to us an untold and unexpected...