Medicine, Madness and Social History

Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.

Medicine, Madness and Social History

Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.

Medicine, Madness and Social History

Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF Author: R. Bivins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349357673
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.

Medicine, Madness and Social History

Medicine, Madness and Social History PDF Author: R. Bivins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230235352
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Book Description
Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.

Madness

Madness PDF Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622281
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.

Greatest Benefit To Mankind

Greatest Benefit To Mankind PDF Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393319806
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine.

The Anatomy of Madness

The Anatomy of Madness PDF Author: William F. Bynum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415323840
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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A Social History of Madness

A Social History of Madness PDF Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9781555841850
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Shares the insights and observations of kings, poets, artists, and writers considered clinically insane

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 PDF Author: Bill Forsythe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134668740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.

Madness in Civilization

Madness in Civilization PDF Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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

Medicine and Madness

Medicine and Madness PDF Author: Stephen Garton
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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