Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the self as project : politics and the human sciences in the twentieth century / Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen, Christine Leuenberger
  • Blueprints for change : the human sciences and the coercive transformation of deviants in Russia, 1890-1930 / Daniel Beer
  • Weimar psychotechnics between Americanism and Fascism / Andreas Killen
  • War neurosis, adjustment problems in veterans, and an ill nation : the disciplinary project of American psychiatry during and after World War II / Hans Pols
  • Sick heil : self and illness in nazi Germany / Geoffrey Cocks
  • From the inside out : therapeutic penology and political liberalism in postwar California / Volker Janssen
  • "New Soviet man" inside machine : human engineering, spacecraft design, and the construction of communism / Slava Gerovitch
  • Supervising spoiled selfhood : inquiry and interpretation in the history of modern American child adoption / Ellen Herman
  • Cultures of categories : psychological diagnoses as institutional and political projects before and after the transition from state socialism in 1989 in East Germany / Christine Leuenberger
  • The Chimera of liberal individualism : how cells became selves in human clinical genetics / Aryn Martin
  • Self-development and civic virtue : mental health and citizenship in the Netherlands, 1945-2005 / Harry Oosterhui