Selected online readings are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.

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Bos, J. (2009) ‘The rise and decline of character: humoral psychology in ancient and early modern medical theory’, History of the Human Sciences, 22 (3):29–50.

Laws, J. (2011) ‘Crackpots and basket-cases: a history of therapeutic work and occupation’, History of the Human Sciences, 24 (2): 65–81.