Laura Hirshbein

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices(34), Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes(18), Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology(14), Mental Health and Psychiatry(6), Medical History and Research(6)

Publications81 total

<i>Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians</i> Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences·2025
Psychiatric authority and social problems: A history of fears and expectations in 20th- and 21st-century America
History of Psychiatry·2025
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Medical Humanities·2025
Looking through the Speculum: Examining the Women's Health Movement
Journal of American History·2025
What Does the History of Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Design Tell Us About Balancing Safety and Healing for Patients With Suicidal Behaviors?
The AMA Journal of Ethic·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Marion Kenworthy and values in the history of American child psychiatry.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry·2024
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture
Journal of American History·2023· 15 cited
Managing power and psychiatric training in the United States, 1945–1990
History of the Human Sciences·2023
The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences·2023Open Access
<i>O’Connor v Donaldson</i> (1975): Legal Challenges, Psychiatric Authority, and the Dangerousness Problem in Deinstitutionalization
American Journal of Legal History·2022· 1 cited
Entanglements of Eugenics, Public Health, and Academic Medicine: Reckoning with the Life and Legacies of Victor C. Vaughan
Bulletin of the history of medicine·2022· 4 cited
Mind the Gap—Increasing Awareness of the Patient Experience
JAMA Ophthalmology·2022
Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry
History of Psychiatry·2022· 1 cited
Treatment-resistant depression reconsidered
SSM - Mental Health·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Chapter 1. The Hospitalist Model in Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks·2021
Assessing the conduct of juveniles: diagnosis and delinquency, 1900–2013
Medical History·2021· 2 citedOpen Access
Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing. KylieSmith Rutgers University Press, 2020. 192 pp. $28.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781978801455; 9781978801462 (cloth); 9781978801493 (pdf); 9781978801479 (epub).
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences·2021
Racism and Mental Health: Historical Perspectives on the Limits of Good Intentions
Society·2021· 2 cited
A Consideration of Pastoral Aesthetics from the Perspective of History
Pastoral Psychology·2021· 2 cited
Leaning into Perplexity: A Case of a Patient Who Did Not Want Treatment But Also Did Not Want to Leave
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry·2021
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Frequent Co-authors

Sharmalie Sarvananda(1), Hans S. Schroder(1), Elissa H. Patterson(1), Mary Blazek(1), Joshua D. Bess(1), Claire Chiang(1), Deepika Sastry(1), Divy Ravindranath(1), Joel D. Howell(1), Alexandra Minna Stern(1), Rachel Lipson Glick(1), Nanya Patel(1), Alice J Liu(1), David S. Im(1), Carol Helmstadter(1), Évelyne Diebolt(1), Mercedes Graf(1), Diego Armus(1), Steven Palmer(1), Patricia J. Fanning(1)