The truth won't out

Article Abstract:

There is a need for greater access to Vatican archives, and this includes access to material dating from the 1939-1945 war. Access to the archives is based on how many pontificates have gone by, and this has been reduced to six from eight by John Paul ll. There is interest in the Inquisition, and the campaign against Catholic theologians, scholars and others who sought a more modern approach when Pius X was pope. The archives on the Inquisition are only open to 1903, to the start of the pontificate of Piux X.

Author: Walsh, Michael
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
History, Political aspects, Vatican City, Catholicity

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Lunatic ideas and the truth about asylums

Article Abstract:

Much of the orthodoxy inspired by Michel Foucault's 1961 publication 'Madness and Civilization', that 18th- and 19th-century madhouses were just prisons for social misfits is mostly true, but they were also hospitals where mental illness was recognized and treated. An illustration is London's Bethlam Hospital, which celebrates its 750th anniversary in October 1997. Hospital archives through the centuries show the use of psychiatry and other therapeutics in an attempt to cure inmates.

Author: Porter, Roy
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
Social policy, Portrayals, Asylums, Psychiatric hospitals

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