Diagnosing Madness : The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920 /

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"This book is the result of years of research spent in archives and libraries on two continents in an attempt to decipher the textual footprints of asylum patients. Some of the results of this research have already been published in Carol Berkenkotter's book Patient Tales: Case Histories a...

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Autores principales: Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina (Autor), Berkenkotter, Carol (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Psychiatry.
Mentally ill.
MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de sante mentale > Histoire.
Mentally ill > History.
Psychiatry > Case studies > History > 20th century.
Psychiatry > Case studies > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: diagnosing madness-imagining the psychiatric patient, 1850-1920
  • The patient as a psychiatric and legal subject in nineteenth-century America: between norm and normal
  • Wrongful confinement in late nineteenth-century fiction: sensation, fact, public fear, and compond rhetorical situations
  • From admissions records to case notes: the illocutionary power of occult genres
  • Narrative survival: personal and institutional accounts of asylum confinement
  • Symptoms in search of a concept: a case study in psychiatric enregisterment
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Henrietta Unwin's medical certificates and case note excerpts from her 1866 and 1867 Ticehurst hospitalizations
  • Appendix 2 List of Baldwin's hospitalizations at Ticehurst
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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