Location: North America

1920s 20th Century

The “Insulin Gift”

In 1923, a wealthy philanthropist’s funding helped make life-saving treatment for diabetes available to patients and doctors.

Insanity Defense illustration in Harper's Weekly, February 27, 1859. Library of Congress.
1930s 1980s 1990s 2000-2010 20th Century 21st Century

The Commonwealth Fund and the “Insanity Defense”: Unexpected Outcomes

Our understanding of the insanity defense relies on a book that was an unintended outcome of a Commonwealth Fund grant.