Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 /
This provocatively argued study, paints a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggesting that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself.
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Licensed eBooks |
| Kieli: | englanti |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©2006.
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| Sarja: | Medicine and society ;
13. |
| Linkit: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnfqp |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Commission of lunacy: background, sources, and contents
- The structure of the psychiatric bedside
- The problems of liberty and property
- Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere
- Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime
- Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.