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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldberg, Ann (Ann E.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.