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| Laura HirshbeinSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Sex and gender in psychiatry: a view from historyLaura Hirshbein
University of Michigan, 1500 E Medical Center Dr SPC 5020, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5020, USA
J Med Humanit 31:155-70. 2010..By using the benefit of hindsight to identify problems from the past, we can think more critically about these issues in the present and the future...- Looking back to the future of psychopharmacologyLaura Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5020, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:1109-12. 2012.... 
Scientific research and corporate influence: smoking, mental illness, and the tobacco industryLaura Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 5020, USA
J Hist Med Allied Sci 67:374-97. 2012..Both the idea that smoking/nicotine does something positive for the mentally ill and the conclusion that it is the result of nicotine dependence have the potential to support corporate agendas (tobacco or pharmaceutical)...- Historical essay: electroconvulsive therapy, memory, and self in AmericaLaura Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Hist Neurosci 21:147-69. 2012..This article explores the conflict between pro- and anti-ECT groups around the issue of memory side effects in the broader context of changes in American psychiatry and society... 
The American Psychiatric Association and the history of psychiatryLaura Hirshbein
University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, 1500 E Medical Center Dr SPC 5020, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5020, USA
Hist Psychiatry 22:302-14. 2011..This paper explores the role of this committee in the context of changes in the psychiatric profession over the twentieth century...- Gender, age, and diagnosis: the rise and fall of involutional melancholia in American psychiatry, 1900-1980Laura D Hirshbein
Department od Psychiatry, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Bull Hist Med 83:710-45. 2009..In the decades after the introduction of psychiatric medications, however, involutional melancholia lost its significance as a specific disease and was absorbed into the broader category of major depressive disorder... - Are women residency supervisors obligated to nurture?Laura D Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0120, USA
Med Educ 40:1159-61. 2006 - Science, gender, and the emergence of depression in American psychiatry, 1952-1980Laura D Hirshbein
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, 9C UH 9151, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Hist Med Allied Sci 61:187-216. 2006.... - Case-based independent study for medical students in emergency psychiatryLaura D Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, 9C UH 9151, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Acad Psychiatry 29:96-9. 2005..Brief cases designed for independent study were developed to allow third-year medical students some exposure to important concepts in emergency psychiatry during their required psychiatry clerkship... - History of women in psychiatryLaura D Hirshbein
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, 9C UH 9151, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Acad Psychiatry 28:337-43. 2004 - Women and teaching in academic psychiatryLaura D Hirshbein
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, 9C UH 9151, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Acad Psychiatry 28:292-8. 2004..A small study of didactic teaching responsibilities along faculty groups in one academic psychiatry department helps to illustrate challenges and opportunities for women in psychiatric teaching settings... - History, memory, and profession: a view of American psychiatry through APA presidential addresses, 1883-2003Laura D Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, 9C UH 9151, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Am J Psychiatry 161:1755-63. 2004..In the presidential addresses, history is not just a story about the past but also a story about psychiatry's self-definition and its future... - William Osler and The Fixed Period: conflicting medical and popular ideas about old ageL Davidow Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Hospitals, 900 Wall St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:2074-8. 2001..This historical perspective allows us to see that physicians have not always had authority over old age and that public understanding and medical pronouncements on old age do not necessarily match... - Emergency psychiatry: How should emergency psychiatrists respond to school violence?Rachel Lipson Glick
Univeresity of Michigan Medical School, C5124 Medical Science I 0611, 1301 Catherine Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0611, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:223-4. 2004 - History, power, and electricity: American popular magazine accounts of electroconvulsive therapy, 1940-2005Laura Hirshbein
University of Michigan, Lapeer, Michigan, USA
J Hist Behav Sci 44:1-18. 2008..This article analyzes the popular accounts over time, particularly the ways in which the debates over ECT have revolved around different interpretations of ECT's history and its power dynamics... - Biology and mental illness: a historical perspectiveLaura D Hirshbein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 58:89-94. 2003..This paper reviews the history of medical ideas about the connection between women's reproductive organs and their mental health and questions modern assumptions about that connection...