Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness

The Eberbach Asylum and German Society 1815-1849

AvAnn Goldberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum. Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-07-29
Mått:160 x 234 x 30 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195125818

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Psykiatri inom Medicin
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Ann Goldberg is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Riverside.

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Goldberg's excellent study ... raises many fruitful questions for future research. It demonstrates well how sensitive, deep reading of local sources can deepen our understanding of large-scale social, intellectual and institutional transformations.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1: The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum Section I: Religion 2: Religious Madness in the Vormarz: Culture, Politics, and the Professionalization of Psychiatry 3: Religious Madness and the Formation of Patients Section II: Sexuality and Gender 4: Medical Representation of Sexual Madness: Nymphomania and Masturbatory Insanity 5: Doctors and Patients: The Practice(s) of Nymphomania 6: Women, Sex, and Rural Life Section III: Delinquincy and Criminality 7: Masturbatory Insanity and Delinquincy 8: Jews and the Criminalization of Madness Conclusion