Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Ph.D. Teri Chettiar

Name
Ph.D. Teri Chettiar
Status
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
E-Mail
teri.chettiar (at) hu-berlin.de
Einrichtung (OKZ)
Philosophische Fakultät → Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften → Wissenschaftsgesch. /Schwerpkt. Bild.u.Org.d.Wissens 19./20.Jhd.

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Vita

 

Teri Chettiar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science Department at the Humboldt University. 

 

PhD          

History, Northwestern University, August 2013 

“The Psychiatric Family: Citizenship, Private Life, and Emotional Health in Welfare-State Britain, 1945-1979”

 

MA           

History, University of British Columbia, 2005

                    

BA           

History, McGill University, 2001

 

Research Interest

  • History of the Human Sciences
  • History of Psychiatry

 

 

Current Project

(coming soon)

 

Publications

“‘Looking as Little Like Patients as Persons Well Could’: Hypnotism, Medicine and the Problem of the Suggestible Subject in Turn-of-the-Century Britain,” Medical History, July 2012, Volume 56 (3), 335-354.

 

“Democratizing Mental Health: Motherhood, Therapeutic Community, and the Emergence of the Psychiatric Family at the Cassel Hospital in Post-WWII Britain,” History of the Human Sciences, December 2012, Volume 25 (5), 107-122.

 

Review of Frank C.P. van der Horst, John Bowlby: From Psychoanalysis to Ethology, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, October 2013, Volume 49 (4), 430-31.

 

Review of Marga Vicedo, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America, in Journal of the History of Biology, forthcoming