Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280682X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280682X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280682X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812211197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812211197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Madmen
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
History.
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
History.
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812211191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812211191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Anatomy of Madness
Author: William F. Bynum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415323840
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415323840
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Madhouses, Mad-doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew T. Scull
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780485300024
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780485300024
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Mind-forg'd Manacles
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140124781
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140124781
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Madness and Civilization
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Madness in Civilization
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691166153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
Author: Jonathan Andrews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926080
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520926080
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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.