Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness : the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849 /
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, an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum
- Religious madness in the Vormärz : culture, politics, and the professionalization of psychiatry
- Religious madness and the formation of patients
- Medical representations of sexual madness : nymphomania and masturbatory insanity
- Doctors and patients : the practice(s) of nymphomania
- Women, sex, and rural life
- Masturbatory insanity and delinquency
- Jews and the criminalization of madness.