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Institutionalizing gender : madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth-century France /

"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hewitt, Jessie, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry
  • Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men
  • Domesticating madness in the family asylum
  • Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power
  • Rehabilitating a profession under siege
  • Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family
  • The "mad" woman in a man's world.