Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness - The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849

Zusatztext Ann Goldberg has written an excellent social histor of madness in the first decades of the modern insane asylum ... a sensitive micro-study. Klappentext Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records! this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness! nymphomania! masturbatory insanity! and Jewishness! this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied! experienced! and resisted in the settings of family! village! and insane asylum. Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender! sexuality! religious politics! class relations! state-building! and anti-Semitism. Zusammenfassung Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum. Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism.

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• Authors: Ann Goldberg, Ann (Assistant Professor of History Goldberg, Goldberg Ann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780195125818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512581-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History of Ideas, Germany, RELIGION / History, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, Psychiatry, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Medicine, History of Religion, Social and cultural history