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Inheriting madness : professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France /

Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evoluti...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.
Collection:Medicine and society ; 4.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The State of Psychiatric Practice and Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter Two. Francois Leuret and Medical Opposition to Moral Treatment, 1835-1850
  • Chapter Three. Jacques Moreau de Tours and the Crisis of Somaticism in French Psychiatry, 1840-1860
  • Chapter Four. Alienism and the Psychiatric Search for a Professional Identity: The Societe medicopsychologique, 1840-1870
  • Chapter Five. French Alienism and Antipsychiatry, 1860-1900
  • Chapter Six. Hereditarianism, the Clinic, and Psychiatric Practice in Nineteenth-Century France
  • Chapter Seven. Science, Politics, and Psychiatric Hereditarianism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Conclusion. The Social History of Psychiatric Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Index