Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1
Author: W F Bynum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136524924

This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83.

The Anatomy of Madness

The Anatomy of Madness
Author: William F. Bynum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2003
Genre: Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN: 9780415323833

Current List of Medical Literature

Current List of Medical Literature
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1086
Release: 1953
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.

Mad Travelers

Mad Travelers
Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674009547

Reflections on the Reality of transient mental illnessThis text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of cultural versus physical symptoms in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The author argues that psychological symptoms find niches where transient illnesses flourish.