Cargando…
Diagnosing madness : the discursive construction of the psychiatric patient, 1850-1920 /
"Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
|
| Colección: | Studies in rhetoric/communication.
|
| Temas: | |
| 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.