Jonathan Sadowsky”s writing investigates madness and its compelling relationship with culture and society. A renowned historian of medicine, he is the author of Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness and Colonialism in Southwest Nigeria, as well as Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Political Controversy. He is the Theodore J. Castele Professor of the History of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, where he is also Associate Director of the program in Medicine, Society, and Culture in the Department of Bioethics. In addition to holding degrees in African and European history, he has studied psychiatric epidemiology.
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Jonathan Sadowsky: Electroconvulsive Therapy in America
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of …
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Jonathan Sadowsky: Electroconvulsive Therapy in America
Electroconvulsive Therapy is widely demonized or idealized. Some detractors consider its very use to be a human rights violation, while some promoters depict it as a miracle, the "penicillin of …
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Jonathan Sadowsky: The Empire of Depression
Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, ‘depression’ referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people were …
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Jonathan Sadowsky: Imperial Bedlam
The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in th …
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