1. “Everything . . . for His Relief”: The Mental Distress, Family Care, and Institutionalization of William and George Pickering, 1786–1826
Laurel Daen
2. Defending the Indefensible: Therapeutic Abortion in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medical Discourse
Isabela Dornelas
3. A “Question of Competency”: Child Guidance, Pediatrics, and the Origins of Child Psychiatry in America
Juan Ilerbaig, Marga Vicedo
4. “Treat Him as Another Human, Not as an Animal”: Patient and Family Protest or Refusal to “Consent” to Eugenic Sterilization in California Institutions, 1922–1950
Heather Dron
5. Pluralism in Practice: What Latin American Hospital Histories Can Contribute to Histories of Medicine
David Carey Jr.



