The insanity of place / the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry [E-book]
Language: English Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 2Publication details: London : Routledge, 2006Description: vi, 246 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415770064
- 0415770068
- 9781280478420 (MyiLibrary)
- WM 11
Contents:
Musings about madness -- The insanity of place -- A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians -- Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry -- The mad-doctor and his craft -- Museums of madness revisited -- Blinded by biology -- "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America -- Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian -- "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies -- Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).
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| Electronic book | BEH-MHT Library Service Online | Link to resource | Available | Click here for electronic access | STOCK100310247B | |||
| Electronic book | Ferriman information and Library Service (North Middlesex) Online | Link to resource | Available | Click here for electronic access | ||||
| Electronic book | South London and Maudsley Trust Library Online | WM 11 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | Click here for electronic access | REAYEBOOK106 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-238) and index.
Musings about madness -- The insanity of place -- A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians -- Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry -- The mad-doctor and his craft -- Museums of madness revisited -- Blinded by biology -- "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America -- Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian -- "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies -- Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).
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