Medicine Madness And Social History
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Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2007-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.
Author | : R. Bivins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2007-06-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0230235352 |
Written in honour of eminent historian Roy Porter by twenty of his colleagues and students, the collection renders cutting edge scholarship accessible. Historians from the three fields that Porter made his own - the histories of medicine, madness, and the Enlightenment - illustrate his influence while tackling major themes ranging from disability rights to the popularization of science. In their accounts, artisan gardeners jostle with anarchists, dentists, and hypnotists in a lively, and very Porterian, parade.
Author | : William F. Bynum |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Psychiatric hospitals |
ISBN | : 9780415323840 |
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-03-13 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0191622281 |
This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.
Author | : James Moran |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-09-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1135653151 |
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.
Author | : Petteri Pietikäinen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2015-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317484452 |
Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization. The book opens by considering perceptions and experiences of madness starting in Biblical times, Ancient history and Hippocratic medicine to the Age of Enlightenment, before moving on to developments from the late 18th century to the late 20th century and the Cold War era. Petteri Pietikäinen looks at issues such as 18th century asylums, the rise of psychiatry, the history of diagnoses, the experiences of mental health patients, the emergence of neuroses, the impact of eugenics, the development of different treatments, and the late 20th century emergence of anti-psychiatry and the modern malaise of the worried well. The book examines the history of madness at the different levels of micro-, meso- and macro: the social and cultural forces shaping the medical and lay perspectives on madness, the invention and development of diagnoses as well as the theories and treatment methods by physicians, and the patient experiences inside and outside of the mental institution. Drawing extensively from primary records written by psychiatrists and accounts by mental health patients themselves, it also gives readers a thorough grounding in the secondary literature addressing the history of madness. An essential read for all students of the history of mental illness, medicine and society more broadly.
Author | : Andrew Scull |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2015-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691166153 |
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Author | : Christina Ramos |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469666588 |
A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography. All shared one thing in common. During the late eighteenth century, they were deemed to be mad and forcefully admitted to the Hospital de San Hipolito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the New World to specialize in the care and custody of the mentally disturbed. Christina Ramos reconstructs the history of this overlooked colonial hospital from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts. Drawing on the poignant voices of patients, doctors, friars, and inquisitors, Ramos treats San Hipolito as both a microcosm and a colonial laboratory of the Hispanic Enlightenment—a site where traditional Catholicism and rationalist models of madness mingled in surprising ways. She shows how the emerging ideals of order, utility, rationalism, and the public good came to reshape the institutional and medical management of madness. While the history of psychiatry's beginnings has often been told as seated in Europe, Ramos proposes an alternative history of madness's medicalization that centers colonial Mexico and places religious figures, including inquisitors, at the pioneering forefront.
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2001-07-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521002523 |
An authoritative and accessible illustrated introduction to medical history.
Author | : Lynn Gamwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
"In this book, Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes explore the historical roots of Americans' understanding of madness today. Drawing on a rich array of sources, the authors interweave the perceptions of medical practitioners, the mentally ill and their families, and journalists, poets, novelists, and artists. As they trace successive ways of explaining madness and treating those judged insane, Gamwell and Tomes vividly depict the political and cultural dimensions of American attitudes toward mental illness." "Gamwell and Tomes observe telling differences in the ways in which patients of different genders, races, and classes have been diagnosed and treated. The authors demonstrate how definitions of madness figured in national debates over abolitionism, women's rights, and alternative medicine. Madness in America also considers how the boundaries between sanity and insanity have been repeatedly redrawn in such areas as sexual behavior and criminality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved