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Undertaker of the Mind
John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2001
757 kr
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As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a 'connoisseur of insanity, this high …
Inheriting Madness
Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 1991
559 kr
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Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and …
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures
Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Av Joel Braslow
Inbunden, 1997
611 kr
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"Mental Ills and Bodily Cures" depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient …
Impure Science
AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Häftad, 1998
304 kr
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In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty …
Imperial Bedlam
Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria
Häftad, 1999
412 kr
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The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the …
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
Av Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2003
794 kr
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This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, …
Madness at Home
The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England, 1820-1860
Inbunden, 2006
1058 kr
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The history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in nineteenth-century England and psychiatry established itself as a medical specialty around the same time. We are, however, largely ignorant about madness at home in this key period: what …
Patient's Progress
Sickness, Health and Medical Care, 1650-1850
Inbunden, 1989
1022 kr
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Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This outstanding new book examines what people did when they fell sick in Britain between 1650 - 1850. The authors investigate the well-established and flourishing tradition of self-medication, as practised by individuals, …
