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  [Madness and Civilization] Folie et Déraison

  cover of 1961 book
  'Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge classique' [Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason] 
  by Michel Foucault
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  Documentepilepsygender...6 more

  [Major Hysteria] La grande hystérie

  front cover & spine, title label, title page, plates, and selected illustrated pages of 1885 book
  'Études cliniques sur la grande hystérie ou hystéro-épilepsie' [Clinical studies on major hysteria, or hystero-epilepsy] 
  by Dr Paul Richer, preface by J.M. Charcot
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  hippocratic medicine

  [Medicine of Salerno] Medicina Salernitana

  spine, title page, and page 320 of 1591 book
  'Medicina Salernitana, Id est Conservandae bonae valetudinis praecepta' [Medicine of Salerno, or The Precepts for Preserving Good Health]
  edited by Arnold of Villanova, revised by John Curie
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  automatismhypnotism...1 more

  [On the automatism of memory and recollection in pathological somnambulism] De l'automatisme de la mémoire et du souvenir dans le somnambulisme pathologique

  title page of 1874 book
  'De l'automatisme de la mémoire et du souvenir dans le somnambulisme pathologique'
  by Docteur Ernest Mesnet
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  hippocratic medicine

  [Oribasius' Never Before Seen Commentaries on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates] Commentariorum Oribasii in Hippocratis Aphorismos

  front cover, ex-libris plate, and title page of 1533 book
  'Oribasij medici clarissimi Commentaria in Aphorismos Hippocratis hactenus non visa'
  by Oribasius, edited by Joannes Guinterius Andernacus
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  eugenicsphrenology

  [Physiognomic cabinet for friends and students of Human Nature] Physiognomisches Cabinet für Freunde und Schüler der Menschenkenntniß

  title page and selected illustrated pages of 1777 book 'Physiognomisches Cabinet für Freunde und Schüler der Menschenkenntniß'
  by Johann Caspar (or Kaspar) Lavater
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  electric therapy

  [Research on the physiological and therapeutic properties of frictional electricity, contact electricity, and induction electricity] Recherches sur les propriétés physiologiques et thérapeutiques de l'électricité de frottement, de l'électricité de contact, et de l'électricité d'induction

  cover & spine and title page of 1851 book
  'Recherches sur les propriétés physiologiques et thérapeutiques de l'électricité de frottement, de l'électricité de contact, et de l'électricité d'induction'
  by Dr. Duchenne (de Boulogne)
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  Documentelectric therapyhysteria

  [Static electricity and hysteria] L'électricité statique et l'hystérie

  front cover, title page, preface letter, and figure 4 of 1881 disseration
  'L'électricité statique et l'hystérie : mémoire précédé d'une lettre a M. le professeur Charcot' [Static electricity and hysteria : disseration preceded by a letter to Prof. Charcot]
  by Docteur A. Arthuis
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  [Studies on Hysteria] Études sur l'hystérie

  title page and cover of 1852 thesis
  'Études sur l'hystérie : thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier' [Studies on Hysteria : thesis presented and publicly defended to the Faculty of Medicine at Montpellier]
  by Jean-J. Drizas
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  Documenthysteriapossession...3 more

  [The Demoniacs, or Hysterical Saints, in Art] Les Démoniaques dans l'art

  title page and selected illustrated pages of 1887 book
  'Les Démoniaques dans l'art'
  by J.M. Charcot and Paul Richer
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  Documenthypnotismhysteria...2 more

  [Witchcraft, magnetism, morphinism, and delusions of grandeur] Sorcellerie, magnétisme, morphinisme, délire des grandeurs

  title page and selected illustrations of 1887 book
  'Les Maladies Épidémiques de l'Esprit : Sorcellerie, magnétisme, morphinisme, délire des grandeurs' [Epidemic Diseases of the Soul : Witchcraft, magnetism, morphinism, and delusions of grandeur]
  by Dr. Paul Regnard
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  [Woman seated with a psychograph, a phrenology machine, on her head]

  1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
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  Documentcocaine

  Koka-Strauch (Coca Bush)

  page 2 (Abb. I) of 1926 book 'Der kokainismus, geschichte, pathologie, medizinische und behördliche bekämpfung' by Hans W. Maier (Hans Wolfgang)
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  genderhysteria

  [The Hysterical Breast] Du sein hystérique

  title page of 1876 dissertation
  'Du sein hystérique : étude sur le gonflement douloureux du sein chez les femmes hystériques' [The Hysterical Breast : a study in painful breast swelling in hysterical women]
  by Brutus Connard
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  Still Image

  1996-1998 Ginsburg Fellows

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  Still Image

  1999-2000 Ginsburg Fellows

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  Still Image

  2002-2004 Fellows

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  20th Anniversary photograph from Philadelphia meeting

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  20th Anniversary photograph from Philadelphia meeting

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  20th Anniversary photograph from Philadelphia meeting

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  50th Anniversary Meeting program

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  50th Anniversary Meeting Stars of GAP booklet

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  A Genuine Mother

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  A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).

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  A head marked with images representing the phrenological faculties, with a key below. Coloured wood engraving, ca. 1845, after H. Bushea and O.S. Fowler (?).

  1 print : wood engraving (?), with watercolour and letterpress
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  A phrenologist working on the head of a boy. Watercolour painting by J. Leech.

  1 painting : watercolour
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  A Rake's Progress [Plate 8: Madness]

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  A series of lithographic drawings illustrative of the relation between the human physiognomy and that of the brute creation

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  A servants' employment agency where prospective employees are having their heads phrenologically examined as to their suitabililty. Coloured etching by W. Taylor.

  1 print : etching, with watercolour ; border 19 x 22.6 cm
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  A sitting physician is trepanning another man's head while two others consult.