- 368 pages
- English
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Anatomy Of Madness Vol 3
About this book
This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. The final Volume III offers works around the psychiatry of the Asylum in countries such as Denmark, British India, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France and America.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- The editors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Madness and the picturesque in the Kingdom of Denmark
- 2 Asylums in alien places: the treatment of the European insane in British India
- 3 ‘Morbid introspection’, unsoundness of mind, and British psychological medicine, c. 1830–c. 1900
- 4 Between soma and psyche: Morselli and psychiatry in late-nineteenth-century Italy
- 5 Medicine and religion: on the physical and mental disorders that accompanied the Ulster Revival of 1859
- 6 Henry Maudsley: psychiatrist, philosopher, and entrepreneur
- 7 The great restraint controversy: a comparative perspective on Anglo-American psychiatry in the nineteenth century
- 8 Hysteria, hypnosis, and the lure of the invisible: the rise of neo-mesmerism in fin-de-siècle French psychiatry
- 9 ‘Humane, economical, and medically wise’: the LCC as administrators of Victorian lunacy policy
- 10 Quarantining the weak-minded: psychiatric definitions of degeneracy and the late-Victorian asylum
- 11 The lunacy profession and its staff in the second half of the nineteenth century, with special reference to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum
- 12 The wages of sin: the problem of alcoholism and general paralysis in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
- Name index
- Subject index