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Michael MacDonald, Colin Jones, Charles Rosenberg

Mystical Bedlam

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

Klappentext Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier. Zusammenfassung Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier! a clergyman and astrological physician! who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Insanity in early modern England; 2. A healer and his patients; 3. Stress, anxiety and family life; 4. Popular stereotypes of insanity; 5. Psychological healing.

Product details

Authors	Michael MacDonald
Assisted by	Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
Publisher	Cambridge University Press Academic

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	30.06.1983

EAN	9780521273824
ISBN	978-0-521-27382-4
Dimensions	153 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
Series	Cambridge History of Medicine
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine

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