American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
The tale of modern psychiatry's founder dominates this story of changing diagnoses, David Healy finds
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Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
In the course of my research on 19th-century politics of prostitution, I was shocked to learn in detail about the miserable lives of prostitutes who served the soldiers of the British Army in India....
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The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making
The Poet's Freedom is an ambitious book that ranges widely through Western philosophy and literature, making liberal mention of Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Kant, Coleridge, Marx and Hegel, and quoting...
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
A pessimist's insights point to the future woes of the market-driven academy, Professor Y finds
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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......
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Dickens and London
Charles Dickens' London, full of strangeness, suffering and laughter, is ever closer to today's metropolis, John Bowen argues
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Diary
BBC Radio 4Blue Notes, Cold NightsA generation of African-American musicians escaped racism at home to build new lives, and create new music, in Scandinavia. In Blue Notes, Cold Nights, country blues...
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The Pick - You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
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Best at nothing - again
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the Times Higher Education Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
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1994 Group: U-Multirank will do UK a disservice
A European Commission-funded project to compare universities is “unlikely to further boost the profile of UK institutions and may actually confuse the picture for prospective applicants”, the 1994...
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Research intelligence - No Frozen assets, but plenty to see
The Open University's pro v-c for research on impact, doctorates and the digital space. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• A journalism lecturer and former News of the World reporter arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal says she has "never been involved in the interception of telecommunications"....
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Leader: Soul path to course corrections
In a reformed sector, marketers should play a role in the creation of degrees - but academics must remain in charge of the process
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From where I sit - Failed state of education
For far too long, Nigeria's leaders have ignored the hidden factors underpinning the dismal performance of the country's university system.Recently, the newspapers quoted Namadi Sambo, Nigeria's vice...
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Appointments
London Metropolitan UniversityCécile TschirhartLondon Metropolitan University has appointed its first dean of students to act as a "champion of the student experience". Cécile Tschirhart was...