Title: The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Abstract: 1. Musings about Madness 2. The Insanity of Place 3. Failure to Communicate? On the Reception of Foucault's Histoire de la Folie by Anglo-American Historians 4. Madmen and their Keepers: Roy Porter and the History of Psychiatry 5. The Mad-Doctor and his Craft 6. Museums of Madness Revisited 7. Blinded by Biology 8. Nobody's Fault: Mental Health Policy in Modern America 9. Psychiatry and Social Control in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Psychiatric Therapeutics and the Historian 11. A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure: Sexual Surgery for Psychosis in Three Nineteenth-Century Societies 12. Focal Sepsis and Psychosis: The Career of Thomas Chivers Graves, B.Sc., M.D., F.C.R.S., M.R.C.V.S. (1883-1964)
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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