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Author : George Man Burrows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Diseases
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2L3K
2000, gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.
Author : George Man Burrows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0282137297
Excerpt from Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms, and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity The first notice of insanity as a disease traces it to the era of fable yet the cure of the daughters of Proteus by Melampus, through the means of hellebore, bears too many marks of consistency to be a mere fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Man Burrows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : OCLC:33188124
Author : Robert Whitaker
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786723799
In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States fare worse than those in poor countries, and quite possibly worse than asylum patients did in the early nineteenth century. Indeed, Whitaker argues, modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles and we as a society are deluded about their efficacy. Tracing over three centuries of "cures" for madness, Whitaker shows how medical therapies-from "spinning" or "chilling" patients in colonial times to more modern methods of electroshock, lobotomy, and drugs-have been used to silence patients and dull their minds, deepening their suffering and impairing their hope of recovery. Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane," and what we value most about the human mind.
Author : Mark Robson,Paul S Seaver,Kelly McGuire,Jeffrey Merrick,Daryl Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000559705
First published in 2013. This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed. Part II, Volume 7 contains 1800–1850: Legal Contexts, Religious Writings and Medical Writers.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429850363
Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to the problems posed by mental disorder. This book is emphatically not part of the venerable tradition of hagiography that has celebrated psychiatric history as a long struggle in which the steady application of rational-scientific principles has produced irregular but unmistakable evidence of progress toward humane treatments for the mentally ill. In fact, Scull contends that traditional mental hospitals, for much of their existence, resembled cemeteries for the still breathing, medical hubris having at times served to license dangerous, mutilating, even life-threatening experiments on the dead souls confined therein. He argues that only the sociologically blind would deny that psychiatrists are deeply involved in the definition and identification of what constitutes madness in our world – hence, claims that mental illness is a purely naturalistic category, somehow devoid of contamination by the social, are taken to be patently absurd. Scull points out, however, that the commitment to examine psychiatry and its ministrations with a critical eye by no means entails the romantic idea that the problems it deals with are purely the invention of the professional mind, or the Manichean notion that all psychiatric interventions are malevolent and ill-conceived. It is the task of unromantic criticism that is attempted in this book.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 7671 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429795954
Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health conditions. Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry (24 Volume set) brings together titles, originally published between 1958 and 1997. The set demonstrates the varied nature of mental health and how we as a society deal with it. Covering a number of areas including child and adolescent psychiatry, alternatives to psychiatry, the history of mental health and psychiatric epidemiology.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300107544
Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. Originally published: 1993.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Physicians
ISBN : OXFORD:555074514
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015027543233
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11043533
Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030785253
This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the debates around moral management, entertainment, and music for patients, as well as the wider context of music and mental health. In the second part, a series of case studies bring to life the characters and contexts involved in asylum music, selected from a range of public and private institutions. From asylum bands to chapel choirs, smoking concerts to orchestras, the rich variety of musical activity presents new perspectives on music in everyday life. Aspects such as employment practices, musicians’ networks and the purchase and maintenance of musical instruments illuminate the ‘business’ of music as part of moral management. As a source of entertainment and occupation, a means of solace and self-control, and as a device for social gatherings and contact with the outside world, the place of music in the asylum offers valuable insight into its uses and meanings in nineteenth-century England.
Author : Daniel Hack Tuke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Clinical psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010298755
Author : Roy Porter,Helen Nicholson,Bridget Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415276349
This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women. New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era.
Author : C. Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230510548
Hanson explores the different ways in which pregnancy has been constructed and interpreted in Britain over the last 250 years. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including obstetric texts, pregnancy advice books, literary texts, popular fiction and visual images, she analyzes changing attitudes to key issues such as the relative rights of mother and foetus and the degree to which medical intervention is acceptable in pregnancy. Hanson also considers the effects of medical and social changes on the subjective experience of pregnancy.