Madhouses Mad Doctors And Madmen

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512806823

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen by Andrew Scull Pdf

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812211191

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen by Andrew Scull Pdf

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medicine
ISBN : CHI:80071121

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Madmen by Roy Porter Pdf

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Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0812211197

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen by Andrew Scull Pdf

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.

Author : Andrew T. Scull
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0485300028

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Madhouses, Mad-doctors, and Madmen by Andrew T. Scull Pdf

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691166155

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Madness in Civilization by Andrew Scull Pdf

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Pdf

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Author : Jessie Hewitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501753435

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Institutionalizing Gender by Jessie Hewitt Pdf

Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of bourgeois gender values. Asylum doctors in nineteenth-century France promoted the notion that manliness was synonymous with rationality, using this "fact" to pathologize non-normative behaviors and confine people who did not embody mainstream gender expectations to asylums. And yet, this gendering of rationality also had the power to upset prevailing dynamics between men and women. Jessie Hewitt argues that the ways that doctors used dominant gender values to find "cures" for madness inadvertently undermined both medical and masculine power—in large part because the performance of gender, as a pathway to health, had to be taught; it was not inherent. Institutionalizing Gender examines a series of controversies and clinical contexts where doctors' ideas about gender and class simultaneously legitimated authority and revealed unexpected opportunities for resistance. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.

Author : Jonathan Andrews,Andrew Scull
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520926080

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Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade by Jonathan Andrews,Andrew Scull Pdf

This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers an extraordinary window into the subterranean world of the mad-trade in eighteenth-century London. The volume concludes with a complete edition of the case book itself, transcribed in full with editorial annotations by the authors. In the fragmented stories Monro's case book provides, Andrews and Scull find a poignant underworld of human psychological distress, some of it strange and some quite familiar. They place these "cases" in a real world where John Monro and othersuccessful doctors were practicing, not to say inventing, the diagnosis and treatment of madness.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135988555

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The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity by Andrew Scull Pdf

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter. Chapters on psychiatric therapeutics and on the shifting social responses to madness over a period of almost three centuries add to a comprehensive assessment of Anglo-American confrontations with madness in this period, and make the book invaluable for those concerned to understand the psychiatric enterprise. The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest to students and professionals of the history of medicine and of psychiatry, as well as sociologists concerned with deviance and social control, the sociology of mental illness and the sociology of the professions.

Author : William F. Bynum,Roy Porter,Michael Shepherd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN : 0415323843

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The Anatomy of Madness by William F. Bynum,Roy Porter,Michael Shepherd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004308534

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Encountering Crises of the Mind by Anonim Pdf

Encountering Crises of the Mind offers social and cultural historical perspectives to mental illness from late medieval times to modern age.

Author : Lawrence Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136879333

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The Past and the Present Revisited by Lawrence Stone Pdf

First Published in 1987. Presented as two sections, the first includes three surveys which aim to describe and comment on some of radial changes in the questions historians have been asking about the past and some of the new data, tools and methodology they have developed to answer them. The second is a collection of essays that were originally reflective book reviews and are concerned with the theme of how and why did Western Europe change itself during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries so as to lay the social, economic, scientific, political, ideological and ethical foundations for the rationalist, democratic, individualistic, technological industrialized society in which we now live.

Author : Valerie Pedlar
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780853238393

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The Most Dreadful Visitation by Valerie Pedlar Pdf

Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The 'Most Dreadful Visitation.' This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins's Basil, and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings--and fears--of mental degeneracy.An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.

Author : Nancy Tomes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521241723

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A Generous Confidence by Nancy Tomes Pdf

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