The institution of taboo (note contagion facet)

Generally unexplored territory in modern psychiatric epidemiology, although Lovell and Sussex (2014) describe the early WHO mental health initiatives in relation to the contagion facets of behavioral and mental disturbances. (See blog post on Holst for url link to those histories of our field.)

Crawford Howell Toy, a Virginian, was Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Studies, lost his tenure and became an example of the importance of protecting academic freedom. The controversy involved Darwin, evolution, what God reveals, and when God reveals it.

Harvard picked him up.

Notice reference to Freud on taboo.

DB probably has a good set of background readings for anyone wishing to write and publish an essay on topics such as drug use as taboo, and application of the contagion concept to taboo behaviors in the health realm, the overlap of the moral life with a healthy life, and the challenges we must expect to face at this intersection.

Stable URL for Toy's essay on taboo, from 1899: http://www.jstor.org/stable/592321

p.s. JSTOR now is set up to allow public reading of online documents, even if you have no access via university e-resources. You must use email to create your account and a "bookshelf" for up to about five items. Once you reach that limi, you can remove an item to make room for a new item.

Another example of open global access to tools and resources via internet, as in the forgottenbooks initiative mentioned in Holst blog post. Search for #Holst within this blog if you need a link to forgottenbooks.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/592321

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