An edition of Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen (1981)

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the social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era

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An edition of Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen (1981)

Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen

the social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era

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English
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384

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Table of Contents

The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull
Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr.
Phrenology and British alienists, ca. 1825-1845 / Roger Cooter
Moral treatment reconsidered, some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry / Andrew Scull
A generous confidence, Thomas Story Kirkbride's philosophy of asylum construction and management / Nancy J. Tomes
The discovery of the asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the new American Republic / Andrew Scull
The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 / John Walton
The model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and its influence on the nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain / William Ll. Parry-Jones
The paradox of prudence: mental health in the gilded age / Barbara Sicherman
"A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict / Bonnie Ellen Blustein
The rejection of psychological approaches to mental disorder in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry / Michael J.Clark
Victorian women and insanity / Elaine Showalter
Liberty and lunacy: the Victorians and wrongful confinement / Peter McCandless
The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England / Roger Smith.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Philadelphia, Pa

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.89/00941
Library of Congress
RC450.G7 M26 1981,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 384 p. :
Number of pages
384

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4257866M
Internet Archive
madhousesmaddoct0000unse
ISBN 10
0812278011, 0812211197
LCCN
81003365
OCLC/WorldCat
7704514
Library Thing
1883249
Goodreads
5151803
1977537

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