Jonathan Sadowsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 511805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Sadowsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadowsky |
| SIGNATURE | SADOWSKY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4404-2339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology
Jonathan Sadowsky, “Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology”: According to the WHO, depression is the greatest contributor to the global health burden. The change is sometimes stark. In Africa, colonial Western observers believed that depression was rare or nonexistent. In the early independence period, some found rates comparable to those in the West. Some are now finding depression to be more prevalent in Africa than i…
Reflections on the use of patient records
One of the most common questions we get asked as historians of psychiatry is "do you have access to patient records?" Why are people so fascinated with the psychiatric patient record? Do people assume they are or should be available? Does access to the patient record actually tell us anything new about the history of psychiatry? And if we did have them, what can, or should we do with them? In the push to both decolonize and personalize the histor…
The Human Factor
Before and After Prozac
Psychiatry and Its Discontents by Andrew Scull
Reviewed by: Psychiatry and Its Discontents by Andrew Scull Jonathan Sadowsky Andrew Scull. Psychiatry and Its Discontents. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xiv + 376 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-97357-2). This collection of essays on psychiatry and its critics by Andrew Scull contains a chapter on the “culture of complaint” that has surrounded psychiatry. That culture has been embodied most dramatically in the antipsychiatry movement…
Lucas Richert, Break on Through
Lucas Richert, Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture Lucas Richert, Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. 224 224pp. Jonathan Sadowsky Jonathan Sadowsky Case Western Reserve University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 7…
From Asylum to Prison
Reviewed by: From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 by Anne E. Parsons Jonathan Sadowsky Anne E. Parsons. From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xiv + 221 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4696-4063-1). At a time when history and other humanistic disciplines are under attack for their alleged impra…
JohnDonvan, CarrieZucker. In a different key
Manuella Meyer. Reasoning against Madness
Professional psychiatry has been a global phenomenon since at least the nineteenth century, and the historiography is now getting closer to reflecting that critical point. Manuella Meyer has made a key contribution with this thorough and carefully-argued monograph. Informed by a strong grounding in psychiatric historiography, Reasoning against Madness shows both parallels with psychiatry elsewhere, as well as features particular to Brazil. Meyer …
Madness in Civilization
Reviewed by: Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Jonathan Sadowsky Andrew Scull. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. 448 pp. Ill. $39.50 (978-0-691-16615-5). One of our great historians of madness has given us a mast…
S. D. Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind
Adolf Meyer deliberately avoided grand systematising of his psychiatric thought. Less deliberately, perhaps, he expressed himself obscurely in written English. As a result, we have been in the odd position of having very little historical work produced on a figure widely regarded, by both psychiatrists and historians, as a central, if not the central figure in the formation of American psychiatry. Undeterred, S. D. Lamb’s study goes far in rectif…
Bulletproof
Beyond the Metaphor of the Pendulum
It is common to represent the history of American psychiatry by comparing it to a pendulum. In this metaphorical rendering, psychiatry has swung back and forth between extremes of emphasis on psyche (life events and inner conflict ruling etiological thinking, talk therapy dominating treatment) and soma (biochemical sources dominating etiological thinking, somatic treatments dominating treatment). This article argues that, while this metaphor is s…
Symptoms of Colonialism
One of the major achievements of African historical scholarship in the postcolonial period has been to show that ethnic identities, such as Yoruba, were socially shaped, processually unfolding entities, rather than static remnants of a primordial past. Over the same period a considerable scholarly and scientific literature developed about mental illness in southwest Nigeria, which focused on the Yoruba, the region's predominant ethnic group (Leig…
Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria
In a recent article Shula Marks has asked, what is colonial about colonial medicine? The answer, of course, depends in part on what one considers ‘colonial’ to mean. One of the benefits – perhaps unexpected – of the growth of studies of colonial medical institutions in recent years has been a growing appreciation of the diversity of colonial contexts, the recognition that colonialism was not the same in all places. This chapter seeks to contribut…
Pushbutton Psychiatry
It is not surprising that in our current era of ascendant biological psychiatry, there has been a growing interest among historians of psychiatry in somatic treatments for mental disorder. Of the major somatic treatments developed in the first half of the twentieth century, electro-convulsive therapy is the only one still in wide use, and its use has actually been increasing in recent decades. There is also abundant evidence that ECT is highly ef…
Colonialism and Psychiatry (review)
Although still small compared to the general historiography of psychiatry, the study of colonial psychiatry has progressed to the point where we might begin some systematic comparisons. The pioneer writer on the subject, Frantz Fanon, generalized very widely from the Algerian context he knew firsthand, and it is becoming clear that despite his considerable discernment, colonial contexts have differed, and so have their psychiatric problems and se…
Mind, Environment, and Culture
Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa (review)
While the development of new medications for HIV/AIDS has encouraged greater optimism in Western countries--perhaps, in fact, some unjustified complacency--the epidemic continues to devastate much of Africa. The epidemic was most serious in the regions near Lake Victoria in its early years, but it is now growing at truly horrific rates in much of the rest of Africa. South Africa is a vivid example, and is now facing among the highest increased-in…
Jonathan Sadowsky comments
The Primeval Forest , and
Albert Schweitzer. Out of My Life and Thought. Originally published in 1933. Translated by Antje Bultmann Lemke. Foreword by President Jimmy Carter. Preface By Rhena Schweitzer Miller and Antje Multmann Lemke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, 1998. xvi + 272 pp. Ill. $15.95 (paperbound)
Imperial Bedlam
Imperial Bedlam
The Great Patients
Research Article| May 01 1999 “The Great Patients:” Heroes and Anti-heroes in a Medical History Course Jonathan Sadowsky Jonathan Sadowsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 173–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Sadowsky; “The Great Patients:” Heroes and Anti-he…
Imperial Bedlam
Beyond the Metaphor of the Pendulum
It is common to represent the history of American psychiatry by comparing it to a pendulum. In this metaphorical rendering, psychiatry has swung back and forth between extremes of emphasis on psyche (life events and inner conflict ruling etiological thinking, talk therapy dominating treatment) and soma (biochemical sources dominating etiological thinking, somatic treatments dominating treatment). This article argues that, while this metaphor is s…
Imperial Bedlam
Colonial Psychiatry and the "African Mind." . Jock McCulloch
The confinements of Isaac O
Psychiatry and Colonial Ideology in Nigeria
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 71, Number 1, Spring 1997
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa Jonathan Sadowsky Adell Patton, Jr. Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xx + 343 pp. Ill. $49.95. Historians of Africa have long been aware of the racial discrimination faced by African physicians in colonial medical institutions, but Adell Patton, Jr., has done the field a major service with this massively r…
Imperial Bedlam
The Great Patients
Research Article| May 01 1999 “The Great Patients:” Heroes and Anti-heroes in a Medical History Course Jonathan Sadowsky Jonathan Sadowsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 173–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1999-74-173 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan Sadowsky; “The Great Patients:” Heroes and Anti-he…
Imperial Bedlam
The Primeval Forest , and
Albert Schweitzer. Out of My Life and Thought. Originally published in 1933. Translated by Antje Bultmann Lemke. Foreword by President Jimmy Carter. Preface By Rhena Schweitzer Miller and Antje Multmann Lemke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with the Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities, 1998. xvi + 272 pp. Ill. $15.95 (paperbound)
Imperial Bedlam
Mind, Environment, and Culture
Histories of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/Aids in Sub-Saharan Africa (review)
While the development of new medications for HIV/AIDS has encouraged greater optimism in Western countries--perhaps, in fact, some unjustified complacency--the epidemic continues to devastate much of Africa. The epidemic was most serious in the regions near Lake Victoria in its early years, but it is now growing at truly horrific rates in much of the rest of Africa. South Africa is a vivid example, and is now facing among the highest increased-in…
Jonathan Sadowsky comments
Symptoms of Colonialism
One of the major achievements of African historical scholarship in the postcolonial period has been to show that ethnic identities, such as Yoruba, were socially shaped, processually unfolding entities, rather than static remnants of a primordial past. Over the same period a considerable scholarly and scientific literature developed about mental illness in southwest Nigeria, which focused on the Yoruba, the region's predominant ethnic group (Leig…
Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria
In a recent article Shula Marks has asked, what is colonial about colonial medicine? The answer, of course, depends in part on what one considers ‘colonial’ to mean. One of the benefits – perhaps unexpected – of the growth of studies of colonial medical institutions in recent years has been a growing appreciation of the diversity of colonial contexts, the recognition that colonialism was not the same in all places. This chapter seeks to contribut…
Pushbutton Psychiatry
It is not surprising that in our current era of ascendant biological psychiatry, there has been a growing interest among historians of psychiatry in somatic treatments for mental disorder. Of the major somatic treatments developed in the first half of the twentieth century, electro-convulsive therapy is the only one still in wide use, and its use has actually been increasing in recent decades. There is also abundant evidence that ECT is highly ef…
Colonialism and Psychiatry (review)
Although still small compared to the general historiography of psychiatry, the study of colonial psychiatry has progressed to the point where we might begin some systematic comparisons. The pioneer writer on the subject, Frantz Fanon, generalized very widely from the Algerian context he knew firsthand, and it is becoming clear that despite his considerable discernment, colonial contexts have differed, and so have their psychiatric problems and se…
Beyond the Metaphor of the Pendulum
It is common to represent the history of American psychiatry by comparing it to a pendulum. In this metaphorical rendering, psychiatry has swung back and forth between extremes of emphasis on psyche (life events and inner conflict ruling etiological thinking, talk therapy dominating treatment) and soma (biochemical sources dominating etiological thinking, somatic treatments dominating treatment). This article argues that, while this metaphor is s…
Bulletproof
S. D. Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind
Adolf Meyer deliberately avoided grand systematising of his psychiatric thought. Less deliberately, perhaps, he expressed himself obscurely in written English. As a result, we have been in the odd position of having very little historical work produced on a figure widely regarded, by both psychiatrists and historians, as a central, if not the central figure in the formation of American psychiatry. Undeterred, S. D. Lamb’s study goes far in rectif…
Madness in Civilization
Reviewed by: Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull Jonathan Sadowsky Andrew Scull. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. 448 pp. Ill. $39.50 (978-0-691-16615-5). One of our great historians of madness has given us a mast…
JohnDonvan, CarrieZucker. In a different key
Manuella Meyer. Reasoning against Madness
Professional psychiatry has been a global phenomenon since at least the nineteenth century, and the historiography is now getting closer to reflecting that critical point. Manuella Meyer has made a key contribution with this thorough and carefully-argued monograph. Informed by a strong grounding in psychiatric historiography, Reasoning against Madness shows both parallels with psychiatry elsewhere, as well as features particular to Brazil. Meyer …
From Asylum to Prison
Reviewed by: From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945 by Anne E. Parsons Jonathan Sadowsky Anne E. Parsons. From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xiv + 221 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4696-4063-1). At a time when history and other humanistic disciplines are under attack for their alleged impra…
Before and After Prozac
Psychiatry and Its Discontents by Andrew Scull
Reviewed by: Psychiatry and Its Discontents by Andrew Scull Jonathan Sadowsky Andrew Scull. Psychiatry and Its Discontents. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xiv + 376 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-0-520-97357-2). This collection of essays on psychiatry and its critics by Andrew Scull contains a chapter on the “culture of complaint” that has surrounded psychiatry. That culture has been embodied most dramatically in the antipsychiatry movement…
Psychology (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · History (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Colonialism (10 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Sociology (8 works)