title: [Documenting and describing. The epistemic function of psychiatric records, their archiving and reinterpretation into case histories].
abstract: The paper attempts to reconstruct the writing of published case histories. Due to the establishment of a scientific classification system in psychiatry there were at the Charité several changes from the late 1870s onwards: (1) Not only was the documentation in the clinical records altered significantly, but also (2) the archive was reorganized into a double filing system and (3) the casuistic made a development from describing seldom or sensational cases into a mode which aimed to unfold psychiatric theory through 'typical cases'. Original medical records, the internal documentation of psychiatric observation, will be compared to their published version. Both, the narrative of a case study and the documentation in the clinical records reveal performative processes of observation and documentation.
authors: Institut für Medizingeschichte, Berlin. sophie.ledebur@charite.de
authors: Sophie
authors: S
authors: Ledebur
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives / Q000266:history*; D004282:Documentation / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011643:Publishing / Q000266:history*