Deathbed Visions in the Journal ‘History of Psychiatry’
On a recent article published in History of Psychiatry by historian of psychical research Carlos Alvarado. For the original article, see http://hpy.sagepub.com/content/25/2/237.abstract.
Month: May 2014
Mesmerising Sounds: The Role of Music in Animal Magnetism. By James Kennaway
James Kennaway, PhD, is a Historian of Medicine at Newcastle University. His book Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease is a study of the notion that music can cause illness, from eighteenth-century fears of over-stimulated nerves to the Nazi concept of ‘degenerate music’, concluding with a discussion … Read more
Enchanted Cambridge
While modern popular science still often relies on traditional claims of the inherent incompatibility of science and ‘magic’, no location in Britain, and perhaps the whole Western hemisphere, is more apt to challenge popular standard notions of the alleged disenchantment of science than Cambridge.