Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 /
This provocatively argued study, paints a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggesting that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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Collection: | Medicine and society ;
13. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Commission of lunacy: background, sources, and contents
- The structure of the psychiatric bedside
- The problems of liberty and property
- Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere
- Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime
- Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.