The year prior, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest had brought attention to the crude treatments in mental ...

The library at Northampton General Hospital contains journals dating back to the 18th Century, describing an array of ...

Proper training!” Before the 18th century, medical institutions had been few and far between. But now there was an explosion in the number of public hospitals. This was largely thanks to ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

Take the Retreat, founded in England at the end of the 18th century by a Quaker ... up in chains to improve. “Mental hospitals started out in the 19th century with very utopian expectations ...