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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Medicine and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.