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Richard Keller

Assistant Professor, Medical History and History of Science

Office: 1423 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-7378
Fax: 608-262-2327
Email: rkeller@med.wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race.

Recent publications:

  • "Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires,1800-1962." Journal of Social History 35 (2001): 295-326.
  • "Pierre Janet and the Psychoanalytic Crisis in France, 1913-1915." Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 24 (1997): 168-177.