...’ work, actions, and cognition in this layered social context. But once in the facilities, the past was visible in the present. When on September 11 two hijacked planes flew out of Boston Logan International Airport and into the Twin Towers, the research became an historical ethnography: I located...

... of illness in order to get as close as possible to a historical ethnography of people’s affective lives at the time. In doing so, it sheds light on the gender norms and intense family bonds that underpinned the nostalgia diagnosis. At a time when psychiatry was still in its infancy, and the notion...