Encountering Crises of the Mind - Madness, Culture and Society, 1200s-1900s

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

About the author

Tuomas Laine-Frigren, Ph.D (2016), University of Jyväskylä, is a postdoctoral researcher in General History at the Department of History and Ethnology. He has published articles on the history of psychology and mental health.

Jari Eilola, Ph.D (2003), University of Jyväskylä, is a senior researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the same university. He has published articles on the history of witchcraft, medicine and crime.

Markku Hokkanen, Ph.D (2006), University of Oulu, is a senior lecturer in history at the Department of History. He has published books and articles on histories of medicine, health and colonialism in South-Central Africa and the British Empire, including Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1857¬-1960 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2018
• EAN: 9789004308527
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30852-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: History of Science and Medicin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)