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"How did the affliction we now know as insanity move from a religious phenomenon to a medical one? How did social class, gender, and ethnicity affect the experience of mental trauma and the way psychiatrists diagnosed and treated patients? In answering these questions, this volume mines the rich and unusually detailed records of one of Germany's first modern insane asylums, the Eberbach Asylum in the duchy of Nassau.
It is a book on the historical relationship between madness and modernity that both builds upon and challenges Michel Foucault's landmark work on this topic, a bold study that gives generous consideration to madness from the patient's perspective while also shedding new light on sexuality, politics, and antisemitism in nineteenth-century Germany."--BOOK JACKET.
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Eberbach (Asylum), History, Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, Psychiatry, Psychotherapist and patient, Sociological aspects, Sociological aspects of Psychiatric hospitals, Sex, religious aspects, Germany, social conditions, Psychiatry, history, Mental Disorders, Religion and Medicine, Sexual BehaviorPlaces
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Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
January 29, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
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Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
May 10, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
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Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness: The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849
1999, Oxford University Press
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Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness: the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849
1998, Oxford University Press
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"Eberbach's founding in 1815 coincided with the lunacy reform movement that swept Europe and North America in the first half of the century."
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"Eberbach's founding in 1815 coincided with the lunacy reform movement that swept Europe and North America in the first half of the century."
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