Książka Victorian Lunacy Samuel Edward Dole Shortt

Victorian Lunacy

Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book exp...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2011
strony
224
EAN
9780521172820
ISBN
0521172829
Enbook ID
02024526
Waga
350
Wymiary
163 x 230 x 15

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Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum – is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.

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