Victorian Lunacy - Richard M. Bucke Practice of Late Nineteenth Century Psychiatry

Klappentext This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Zusammenfassung This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on primary sources; Introduction; 1. The topography of a Victorian medical life; 2. The human ecology of the London Asylum; 3. Toward a secular physiology of mind; 4. The social genesis of etiological speculation; 5. Treatment tactics and professional aspirations; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Shortt Samuel Edward Dole, Samuel Edward Dole Shortt, Shortt Samuel Edward Dole
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521172820
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17282-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Ontario, MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, Mental health services