Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Scull, Andrew, 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychiatrie.
Social psychiatry.
Psychiatry.
MEDICAL > History.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Psychiatrie sociale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Psychiatrie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Psychiatry > history
History, 19th Century
Social psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria)
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Vic.)
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull
  • Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr.
  • Phrenology and British alienists, ca. 1825-1845 / Roger Cooter
  • Moral treatment reconsidered, some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry / Andrew Scull
  • A generous confidence, Thomas Story Kirkbride's philosophy of asylum construction and management / Nancy J. Tomes
  • The discovery of the asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the new American Republic / Andrew Scull
  • The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 / John Walton
  • The model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and its influence on the nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain / William Ll. Parry-Jones
  • The paradox of prudence: mental health in the gilded age / Barbara Sicherman
  • "A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict / Bonnie Ellen Blustein
  • The rejection of psychological approaches to mental disorder in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry / Michael J. Clark
  • Victorian women and insanity / Elaine Showalter
  • Liberty and lunacy: the Victorians and wrongful confinement / Peter McCandless
  • The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England / Roger Smith.

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