Sander L. Gilman
Sander L. Gilman is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University and professor of the history of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College.
The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle
Sander Gilman traces the "medicalization" of Jewishness in the science and medicine of turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the ways in which Jewish physicians responded to the effort to incorporate... (more)
Freud, Race and Gender
A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de sicle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and... (more)
Reading Freud's Reading
Perhaps nothing is more revealing about a person than what he or she reads. In 1938, when Freud was forced by the Nazis to flee Vienna, he brought with him to London a large portion of his annotated... (more)
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
This text presents a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. The author traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to "cure" dissatisfied... (more)