Participant Info
- First Name
- Janka
- Last Name
- Kovács
- Country
- Hungary
- State
- kovacs.janka@htk.elte.hu
- Affiliation
- Eötvös Loránd University, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History
- Website URL
- https://tti.abtk.hu/en/fellows/profile/jkovacs
- Keywords
- history of psychiatry; Central Europe; 18–19th centuries
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am currently a research fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. I received my PhD from Eötvös Loránd University in 2022 with a dissertation on the beginnings of psychology and psychiatry in Hungary between 1750 and 1830. My current research examines discourse networks in nineteenth-century Hungarian psychiatry, exploring how administrative practices, paper technologies, asylum statistics, and patient records shaped psychiatric knowledge and institutional life. More broadly, my work focuses on the history of psychiatry, the history of medicine, and the history of science in Central Europe.
- Recent Publications
- With the Emperor’s Support: Plans and Obstacles of Psychiatric Institutionalization in Hungary between the 1840s and 1860s. In: Zdeněk, Nebřenský; Daniela, Tinková (eds.): The Making of Modern Hospitals in Central Europe between the Enlightenment and the Second World War. Leiden, Brill, 2026. pp. 172–205. (Clio Medica 109.)Finding a Place for “the most unfortunate”? Madness, Institutionalization, and the Obstacles of Care in the Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy. In: Ureczky, Eszter (ed.): Crises of Care: Pandemic Culture, Biopolitics, and the Medical Humanities. Warsaw, Sciendo, 2026. 53–74.The darkest field of medicine? The intergration of psychological knowledge into medical education in the Habsburg Monarchy (1780s–1840s). European Review of History/Revue européenne d’s histoire 31. (2024) 1. pp. 17–46.Poor, Sick, and Mad: Treating the Mentally Ill in the Hungarian Hospitals of the Brothers of Mercy (1740–1830). European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 81. (2024) 1. 74–108.
For a complete list of my publications see: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10054304
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Hungary
- Expertise by Geography
- Eastern Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Medicine
