Edward Shorter (historian)

Edward Shorter (* 1941 ) is a Canadian historian with a focus on the social history of medicine and medical sociology ( medical history ). Among other things, he dealt with the topics of obstetrics , gynecology , psychiatry , psychopharmacology , the social history of the family and human sexuality, as well as patient-doctor relationships and psychosomatic diseases .

Shorter received his Ph.D. in 1968. at Harvard . Since 1991 he has been the Hannah Professor of Medical History at the University of Toronto , where he has also been Professor of Psychiatry since 1996.

Shorter was twice with the Jason A. Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada awarded: 1995 for its From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era (1992) and 2000 for A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (1997).

Publications

• The birth of the modern family . Rowohlt , Reinbek 1977, ISBN 3-498-06122-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Shorter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Edward Shorter on the University of Toronto website
• Edward Shorter at ideacity