The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in cultural history ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of 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).