Ivan Crozier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1302653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Crozier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Crozier |
| SIGNATURE | CROZIER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historicizing transcultural psychiatry
The history of transcultural psychiatry has recently attracted much historical attention, including a workshop in March 2016 in which an international panel of scholars met at the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord (MSH-PN). Papers from this workshop are presented here. By conceiving of transcultural psychiatry as a dynamic social field that frames its knowledge claims around epistemic objects that are specific to the field, and by focusing…
Race, alcohol and general paralysis
This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues th…
Introduction
PM Yap's most significant intellectual achievement was his development of the concept of the culture-bound syndrome, which synthesized years of research into transcultural psychiatry, and situated this work within this field by drawing on elaborated nosological schema that challenged some of the ethnocentric assumptions made by previous psychiatrists who had tried to understand mental illnesses that presented in non-western cultures. This introdu…
Case studies, fields and the dissemination of knowledge
Making a Space for Medical Expertise
This article looks at the boundary work performed by Victorian doctors in order to position themselves as beneficial to the court in helping to determine whether a woman had been raped. These doctors provided tangible physical evidence to support already widely-held beliefs about the nature of the rape victim. Such physical evidence could then be used to support, or undermine, the complainant’s allegation. The article concludes that the reliance …
Making Up Koro
Koro is a syndrome in which the penis (or sometimes the nipples or vulva) is retracting, with deleterious effects for the sufferer. In modern psychiatry, it is considered a culture-bound syndrome (CBS). This paper considers the formation and development of psychiatric conceptions of koro and related genital retraction syndromes from the 1890s to the present. It does so by examining the different explanations of koro based on shifting conceptions …
The Collectors of Lost Souls
Warwick Anderson's story of the discovery of the cause of kuru, a “slow virus” caused by prions found predominantly in the Fore people of New Guinea that leads to a horrific death, has been reviewed widely and positively in both the scientific and medical–historical presses since its publication in 2008. It tells the story of Carleton Gajdusek, whose pivotal role in the understanding of this disease earned him a Nobel Prize. This story is told in…
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire
The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the solidification of class structures, and various encounters with the exotic customs of the colonies – all of which contributed to enhance sexual anxiety among the middle classes. In response, new social conventions, sanitary prescriptions, practices of self-control, and policies of sex regulation and education were developed as …
Havelock Ellis, eugenicist
Sexual Inversion
Pillow Talk
Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatric Writing about Homosexuality before Havelock Ellis
Recent accounts of the emergence of sexology have addressed the role played by homosexuals and sexual radicals in framing the questions posed by psychiatrists. This work has focused largely upon American and Continental psychiatry (with regard to homosexuality), with attention to British sexologists sometimes being tied to contemporary feminist concerns with the sexual double standard. In both cases, psychiatrists are shown to be following other …
La sexologie et la définition du « normal » entre 1860 et 1900
Cet article décrit dans ses grandes lignes le développement de la sexologie, en en résumant les contributions essentielles. Il montre que le souci de définir l’instinct sexuel dit « normal », et de cataloguer les variations par rapport à cette norme est au cœur des textes de sexologie. Ce n’est pas toujours la lecture qui en a été faite, toutefois. Beaucoup d’individus « pervers » les ont lus pour façonner autrement leurs propres vies et leurs pr…
Zarathustra in Paris
Journal Article Zarathustra in Paris: the Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891–1918 Get access Ivan Crozier Ivan Crozier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 53, Issue 1, SPRING 2002, Pages 274–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/53.1.274 Published: 01 March 2002
Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May
William Acton is now more widely known as a doctor specializing in sexual medicine than he ever was during his lifetime and any other time prior to the 1960s. Acton’s work is considered mostly in terms of what the British medical profession said about female sexual response. There is a lot more to Acton, even if we ignore the fact that he said virtually nothing about female sexuality. He published numerous articles in the British medical press, w…
Becoming a Sexologist
L'A. decrit les procedes sociologiques et politiques impliques dans le devenir des sexologues dans un environnement social et culturel particulierement sensible en Angleterre entre les deux guerres
Havelock Ellis, Eonism and the patient's discourse; or, writing a book about sex
This paper argues that an analysis of the use of the case study in the sexological writings of Havelock Ellis is essential for a proper understanding of how texts about sex were written out of the patient's 'confessions'. It is maintained that by focusing on the construction of the book Eonism, rather than on just the patients' discourse, a fuller understanding of the processes necessary for the field of sexology to operate is achieved. In order …
William Acton and the history of sexuality
Journal Article William Acton and the history of sexuality: The medical and professional context Get access Ivan Crozier Ivan Crozier 1University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 1–27, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.1 Published: 01 January 2000
Taking Prisoners
This paper addresses the efforts of both Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud to posit a theory of homosexuality, and especially considers their efforts to (re-)negotiate each other's theories. Its central premise derives from the sociology of scientific knowledge: that it is not what is written, but the way that what is written is treated by ensuing experts, that makes knowledge. In the case study used in this paper, Ellis and Freud struggle to posi…
Social Construction in a Cold Climate
The relation of rhetoric to science depends also on whether—to put the two extremes—science is perceived as accretive and progressive or as largely a history of dead ends in experiment and odd dead ‘facts’ now to be read only as allegories of the society that produced them. (Gillian Beer and Herminio Martins1)
Social Psychology
Taking Prisoners
This paper addresses the efforts of both Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud to posit a theory of homosexuality, and especially considers their efforts to (re-)negotiate each other's theories. Its central premise derives from the sociology of scientific knowledge: that it is not what is written, but the way that what is written is treated by ensuing experts, that makes knowledge. In the case study used in this paper, Ellis and Freud struggle to posi…
Introduction
PM Yap's most significant intellectual achievement was his development of the concept of the culture-bound syndrome, which synthesized years of research into transcultural psychiatry, and situated this work within this field by drawing on elaborated nosological schema that challenged some of the ethnocentric assumptions made by previous psychiatrists who had tried to understand mental illnesses that presented in non-western cultures. This introdu…
Making Up Koro
Koro is a syndrome in which the penis (or sometimes the nipples or vulva) is retracting, with deleterious effects for the sufferer. In modern psychiatry, it is considered a culture-bound syndrome (CBS). This paper considers the formation and development of psychiatric conceptions of koro and related genital retraction syndromes from the 1890s to the present. It does so by examining the different explanations of koro based on shifting conceptions …
Becoming a Sexologist
L'A. decrit les procedes sociologiques et politiques impliques dans le devenir des sexologues dans un environnement social et culturel particulierement sensible en Angleterre entre les deux guerres
La sexologie et la définition du « normal » entre 1860 et 1900
Cet article décrit dans ses grandes lignes le développement de la sexologie, en en résumant les contributions essentielles. Il montre que le souci de définir l’instinct sexuel dit « normal », et de cataloguer les variations par rapport à cette norme est au cœur des textes de sexologie. Ce n’est pas toujours la lecture qui en a été faite, toutefois. Beaucoup d’individus « pervers » les ont lus pour façonner autrement leurs propres vies et leurs pr…
Havelock Ellis, eugenicist
Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatric Writing about Homosexuality before Havelock Ellis
Recent accounts of the emergence of sexology have addressed the role played by homosexuals and sexual radicals in framing the questions posed by psychiatrists. This work has focused largely upon American and Continental psychiatry (with regard to homosexuality), with attention to British sexologists sometimes being tied to contemporary feminist concerns with the sexual double standard. In both cases, psychiatrists are shown to be following other …
William Acton and the history of sexuality
Journal Article William Acton and the history of sexuality: The medical and professional context Get access Ivan Crozier Ivan Crozier 1University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 1–27, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.1 Published: 01 January 2000
Social Construction in a Cold Climate
The relation of rhetoric to science depends also on whether—to put the two extremes—science is perceived as accretive and progressive or as largely a history of dead ends in experiment and odd dead ‘facts’ now to be read only as allegories of the society that produced them. (Gillian Beer and Herminio Martins1)
Havelock Ellis, Eonism and the patient's discourse; or, writing a book about sex
This paper argues that an analysis of the use of the case study in the sexological writings of Havelock Ellis is essential for a proper understanding of how texts about sex were written out of the patient's 'confessions'. It is maintained that by focusing on the construction of the book Eonism, rather than on just the patients' discourse, a fuller understanding of the processes necessary for the field of sexology to operate is achieved. In order …
William Acton and the history of sexuality
Journal Article William Acton and the history of sexuality: The medical and professional context Get access Ivan Crozier Ivan Crozier 1University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 1–27, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2000.5.1.1 Published: 01 January 2000
Taking Prisoners
This paper addresses the efforts of both Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud to posit a theory of homosexuality, and especially considers their efforts to (re-)negotiate each other's theories. Its central premise derives from the sociology of scientific knowledge: that it is not what is written, but the way that what is written is treated by ensuing experts, that makes knowledge. In the case study used in this paper, Ellis and Freud struggle to posi…
Social Construction in a Cold Climate
The relation of rhetoric to science depends also on whether—to put the two extremes—science is perceived as accretive and progressive or as largely a history of dead ends in experiment and odd dead ‘facts’ now to be read only as allegories of the society that produced them. (Gillian Beer and Herminio Martins1)
Social Psychology
Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May
William Acton is now more widely known as a doctor specializing in sexual medicine than he ever was during his lifetime and any other time prior to the 1960s. Acton’s work is considered mostly in terms of what the British medical profession said about female sexual response. There is a lot more to Acton, even if we ignore the fact that he said virtually nothing about female sexuality. He published numerous articles in the British medical press, w…
Becoming a Sexologist
L'A. decrit les procedes sociologiques et politiques impliques dans le devenir des sexologues dans un environnement social et culturel particulierement sensible en Angleterre entre les deux guerres
Zarathustra in Paris
Journal Article Zarathustra in Paris: the Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891–1918 Get access Ivan Crozier Ivan Crozier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 53, Issue 1, SPRING 2002, Pages 274–278, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/53.1.274 Published: 01 March 2002
La sexologie et la définition du « normal » entre 1860 et 1900
Cet article décrit dans ses grandes lignes le développement de la sexologie, en en résumant les contributions essentielles. Il montre que le souci de définir l’instinct sexuel dit « normal », et de cataloguer les variations par rapport à cette norme est au cœur des textes de sexologie. Ce n’est pas toujours la lecture qui en a été faite, toutefois. Beaucoup d’individus « pervers » les ont lus pour façonner autrement leurs propres vies et leurs pr…
Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatric Writing about Homosexuality before Havelock Ellis
Recent accounts of the emergence of sexology have addressed the role played by homosexuals and sexual radicals in framing the questions posed by psychiatrists. This work has focused largely upon American and Continental psychiatry (with regard to homosexuality), with attention to British sexologists sometimes being tied to contemporary feminist concerns with the sexual double standard. In both cases, psychiatrists are shown to be following other …
Havelock Ellis, eugenicist
Sexual Inversion
Pillow Talk
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire
The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the solidification of class structures, and various encounters with the exotic customs of the colonies – all of which contributed to enhance sexual anxiety among the middle classes. In response, new social conventions, sanitary prescriptions, practices of self-control, and policies of sex regulation and education were developed as …
Making a Space for Medical Expertise
This article looks at the boundary work performed by Victorian doctors in order to position themselves as beneficial to the court in helping to determine whether a woman had been raped. These doctors provided tangible physical evidence to support already widely-held beliefs about the nature of the rape victim. Such physical evidence could then be used to support, or undermine, the complainant’s allegation. The article concludes that the reliance …
Making Up Koro
Koro is a syndrome in which the penis (or sometimes the nipples or vulva) is retracting, with deleterious effects for the sufferer. In modern psychiatry, it is considered a culture-bound syndrome (CBS). This paper considers the formation and development of psychiatric conceptions of koro and related genital retraction syndromes from the 1890s to the present. It does so by examining the different explanations of koro based on shifting conceptions …
The Collectors of Lost Souls
Warwick Anderson's story of the discovery of the cause of kuru, a “slow virus” caused by prions found predominantly in the Fore people of New Guinea that leads to a horrific death, has been reviewed widely and positively in both the scientific and medical–historical presses since its publication in 2008. It tells the story of Carleton Gajdusek, whose pivotal role in the understanding of this disease earned him a Nobel Prize. This story is told in…
Case studies, fields and the dissemination of knowledge
Historicizing transcultural psychiatry
The history of transcultural psychiatry has recently attracted much historical attention, including a workshop in March 2016 in which an international panel of scholars met at the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord (MSH-PN). Papers from this workshop are presented here. By conceiving of transcultural psychiatry as a dynamic social field that frames its knowledge claims around epistemic objects that are specific to the field, and by focusing…
Race, alcohol and general paralysis
This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues th…
Introduction
PM Yap's most significant intellectual achievement was his development of the concept of the culture-bound syndrome, which synthesized years of research into transcultural psychiatry, and situated this work within this field by drawing on elaborated nosological schema that challenged some of the ethnocentric assumptions made by previous psychiatrists who had tried to understand mental illnesses that presented in non-western cultures. This introdu…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Human sexuality (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)