Alfred Freeborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Freeborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeborn |
| SIGNATURE | FREEBORN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3544-6704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making invalidity fair
In post-war Britain there was cross-party political pressure to ensure that disabled veterans received fair compensation. This produced a particular challenge to the state’s deployment of psychiatric knowledge. In 1943 new laws governing the pension appeal tribunals were passed to give veterans the benefit of the doubt in their appeals, throwing the spotlight on diseases considered by psychiatrists to have hereditary aetiologies, such as schizoph…
Introduction
On 12 November 2024, one of us (AF) received an email from the retired neuropsychologist Rosalind Ridley telling him that the psychiatrist Tim Crow had died two days earlier. AF never met Ridley in person but interviewed her and her husband over a video call in 2022 about their work in the 1970s in Crow's research department. The email was brief and to the point; Ridley finished by wishing AF well with his research.1 It was a few days before an o…
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia
This article offers a new reading of the US–UK Diagnostic Project (1965–75), a series of influential collaborative studies that tested the ability of psychiatrists on either side of the Atlantic to diagnose schizophrenia, exploring its historical origins, significance, and legacy. Using archival materials to trace the contest between two of the key players in the Diagnostic Project, Aubrey Lewis and Morton Kramer, it explores how the methodologic…
Ethics by Committee
The history of the brain and mind sciences
This review article critically surveys the following literature by placing it under the historiographical banner of ‘the history of the brain and mind sciences’: Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); Stephen Casper …
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia
This article offers a new reading of the US–UK Diagnostic Project (1965–75), a series of influential collaborative studies that tested the ability of psychiatrists on either side of the Atlantic to diagnose schizophrenia, exploring its historical origins, significance, and legacy. Using archival materials to trace the contest between two of the key players in the Diagnostic Project, Aubrey Lewis and Morton Kramer, it explores how the methodologic…
The history of the brain and mind sciences
This review article critically surveys the following literature by placing it under the historiographical banner of ‘the history of the brain and mind sciences’: Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017); Katja Guenther, Localization and its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015); Stephen Casper …
Ethics by Committee
Testing psychiatrists to diagnose schizophrenia
This article offers a new reading of the US–UK Diagnostic Project (1965–75), a series of influential collaborative studies that tested the ability of psychiatrists on either side of the Atlantic to diagnose schizophrenia, exploring its historical origins, significance, and legacy. Using archival materials to trace the contest between two of the key players in the Diagnostic Project, Aubrey Lewis and Morton Kramer, it explores how the methodologic…
Making invalidity fair
In post-war Britain there was cross-party political pressure to ensure that disabled veterans received fair compensation. This produced a particular challenge to the state’s deployment of psychiatric knowledge. In 1943 new laws governing the pension appeal tribunals were passed to give veterans the benefit of the doubt in their appeals, throwing the spotlight on diseases considered by psychiatrists to have hereditary aetiologies, such as schizoph…
Introduction
On 12 November 2024, one of us (AF) received an email from the retired neuropsychologist Rosalind Ridley telling him that the psychiatrist Tim Crow had died two days earlier. AF never met Ridley in person but interviewed her and her husband over a video call in 2022 about their work in the 1970s in Crow's research department. The email was brief and to the point; Ridley finished by wishing AF well with his research.1 It was a few days before an o…
History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · Library science (2 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Appeal (1 work) · Banner (1 work) · Biographical and Historical Analysis (1 work) · Certification (1 work)