Edward Shorter

Biographic Data

ID96331
NAMEEdward Shorter
GIVEN NAMESEdward
FAMILY NAMEShorter
SIGNATURESHORTER E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0002-5126-8627
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS72
TOTAL CITATIONS157
AUTHOR COUNT72
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX6

  • How amytal changed psychopharmacy

    Open AccessAriel Gershon, A S Gershon et al.ARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2019

    In the early 1930s, American neurologist and psychiatrist William Bleckwenn used sodium amytal to render catatonic patients responsive, so that he could engage in talk therapy. Bleckwenn found a new, ‘off-label’ use for this anaesthetic and anxiolytic medication in psychiatry and, in doing so, allowed for important discoveries in the diagnosis and treatment of catatonia. Pharmacological textbooks reveal a ‘label’, while the Index-Catalogue of the…

  • Strikes in France 1830–1968

    Edward Shorter, Charles TillyCHAPTERCollective Violence, Contentious…2017

    This chapter presents a precious little evidence concerning the day-to-day dynamics of individual strikes and the week-to-week waxing of conflict within particular workplaces. The evidence has taken the form of general correspondences between unionization and strike activity, demonstrations that strike waves tend to draw disproportionately from those industries which already have high propensities to strike in ordinary years. The study of the geo…

  • Sexual Sunday School

    Open AccessEdward ShorterARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2014

    The successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have not responded to changing American sexual practices and mores, instead pathologizing sexual behavior that its authors considered to be atypical and conflating innocuous behavior and harmful treatment of other people in its diagnostic categories

  • Anxiety

    Edward ShorterARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2014

    Reviewed by: Anxiety: A Short Historyby Allan V. Horwitz Edward Shorter Allan V. Horwitz. Anxiety: A Short History. Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xvi + 190 pp. $24.95 (978-1-4214-1080-7). This is a little gem of a book. Allan Horwitz at Rutgers University, author of the acclaimed Creating Mental Illness, sets out to write a compact history of the concept of anxiety for Charles Rosenberg’s B…

  • Neurasthenic Nation

    Edward ShorterARTICLEJournal of American History2012Cited by: 11

    Neurasthenic Nation reignites an interesting debate: Does medical history study imaginary or real diseases? For David G. Schuster, neurasthenia is a cultural figment that helped Americans deal with the growing stresses of the late nineteenth century: “Neurasthenia recast many unpleasant aspects of life as undesirable byproducts of a nation trying to evolve and improve faster than the natural abilities of its citizenry could keep pace” (p. 1). So …

  • Endocrine psychiatry

    Edward ShorterBOOKEndocrine psychiatry2010

  • Hysteria and catatonia as motor disorders in historical context

    Open AccessEdward ShorterARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2006

    It is difficult to imagine motor symptoms in psychiatry as different as hysteria and catatonia. The mechanism of hysteria is presumed to be psychogenic, while catatonia has always been considered to be among the most organic syndromes in psychiatry. Yet hysteria and catatonia have historically been regarded as allied conditions, an observation borne out by recent developments in neuroscience as well as by a growing awareness that the presentation…

  • Written in the Flesh

    Edward ShorterBOOKWritten in the Flesh2005

    Written in the Flesh is a history of what people like to do in bed and how that has changed. The change is relentless: human sexuality continually seeks new means of liberation in its expression of pleasure. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Images removed at the request of the rights holder.

  • European Psychiatry on the Eve of War

    Edward ShorterARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Reviewed by: European Psychiatry on the Eve of War: Aubrey Lewis, the Maudsley Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. Supplement 22 to Medical History Edward Shorter Katherine Angel, Edgar Jones, and Michael Neve, eds. European Psychiatry on the Eve of War: Aubrey Lewis, the Maudsley Hospital and the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s. Supplement 22 to Medical History. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at U…

  • Creating mental illness

    Open AccessEdward ShorterARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2003

  • Psychiatrie lyonnaise. Fragments d'une histoire vécue (1950–1995)

    Open AccessEdward ShorterARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2001

  • A History of Psychiatry

    Edward ShorterBOOKA History of Psychiatry1998Cited by: 52

  • Naked to the Bone

    Edward ShorterARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century Edward Shorter Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century. Sloan Technology Series. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. xiv + 378 pp. Ill. $35.95. A contributor to the distinguished Sloan Technology Series, Bettyann Kevles has chosen the task of making the history of radiology accessible to the general public. She …

  • A History of Psychiatry

    Ellen Herman, Edward ShorterREVIEWJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac, By Edward Shorter. (New York: Wiley, 1997. xii, 436 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-471-15749-X.) Get access Ellen Herman Ellen Herman University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1033–1034, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953108 Published: 01 D…

  • The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States

    Edward ShorterARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1996

    Reviewed by: The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985 Edward Shorter Nathan G. Hale, Jr. The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States: Freud and the Americans, 1917–1985. Freud in America, vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 476 pp. $30.00. With this book, Nathan Hale completes a project that began as a doctoral dissertation a quarter of a century ago and has turned in…

  • A History of the Family, Volume One

    Edward Shorter, André Burguière et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1996

  • From the Mind into the Body

    Allan V Horwitz, Edward ShorterARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • La storia della psichiatria

    Edward ShorterARTICLEIsis1993

  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    Anne E Figert, Edward ShorterARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993

  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    Judith M Hughes, Edward ShorterARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

  • Mania, Hysteria and Gender in Lower Austria, 1891-1905

    Open AccessEdward ShorterARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry1990

  • Private Clinics in Central Europe’ 1850–1933

    Edward ShorterARTICLESocial History of Medicine1990Cited by: 2

    Private Clinics in Central Europe' 1850–1933 Get access EDWARD SHORTER EDWARD SHORTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 3, Issue 2, August 1990, Pages 159–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/3.2.159 Published: 01 August 1990

  • Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France

    Edward ShorterARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1989

  • The Secret Plague

    Edward Shorter, Jay Cassel et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1989

  • In the Family Way

    Edward ShorterARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1988