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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era /
The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contrib...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
- 2. Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835
- 3. Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845
- 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered: Some Sociological Comments on an Episode in the History of British Psychiatry
- 5. A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride's Philosophy of Asylum Construction and Management
- 6. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic
- 7. The Treatment of Pauper Lunatics in Victorian England: The Case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870
- 8. The Model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and Its Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Asylum System in Britain
- 9. The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age
- 10. "A Hollow Square of Psychological Science": American Neurologists and Psychiatrists in Conflict
- 11. The Rejection of Psychological Approaches to Mental Disorder in Late Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatry
- 12. Victorian Women and Insanity
- Psychiatry and the Law
- 13. Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement
- 14. The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England
- Notes