Author: William Charles EllisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385570034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
A Treatise on the Nature, Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment of Insanity
Author: Sir William Charles EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A Treatise on the Nature, Symptoms, Causes and Treatment of Insanity, with Practical Observations on Lunatic Asylums, and Description of the Pauper Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, at Hanwell
Author: William Charles EllisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385570026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
Author: VariousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429795955
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 7671
Book Description
Psychiatry is a medical field concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health conditions. Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry (24 Volume set) brings together titles, originally published between 1958 and 1997. The set demonstrates the varied nature of mental health and how we as a society deal with it. Covering a number of areas including child and adolescent psychiatry, alternatives to psychiatry, the history of mental health and psychiatric epidemiology.
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107548
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. Originally published: 1993.
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429850360
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to the problems posed by mental disorder. This book is emphatically not part of the venerable tradition of hagiography that has celebrated psychiatric history as a long struggle in which the steady application of rational-scientific principles has produced irregular but unmistakable evidence of progress toward humane treatments for the mentally ill. In fact, Scull contends that traditional mental hospitals, for much of their existence, resembled cemeteries for the still breathing, medical hubris having at times served to license dangerous, mutilating, even life-threatening experiments on the dead souls confined therein. He argues that only the sociologically blind would deny that psychiatrists are deeply involved in the definition and identification of what constitutes madness in our world – hence, claims that mental illness is a purely naturalistic category, somehow devoid of contamination by the social, are taken to be patently absurd. Scull points out, however, that the commitment to examine psychiatry and its ministrations with a critical eye by no means entails the romantic idea that the problems it deals with are purely the invention of the professional mind, or the Manichean notion that all psychiatric interventions are malevolent and ill-conceived. It is the task of unromantic criticism that is attempted in this book.
Medicine, Emotion and Disease, 1700-1950
Author: Fay Bound AlbertiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Using interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.
Catalogue Raisonné of the Medical Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital
Author: Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Dangerous Motherhood
Author: H. MarlandPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230511864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth. Exploring the relationship between women, their families and their doctors reveals how explanations for the onset of puerperal insanity were drawn from a broad set of moral, social and environmental frameworks, rather than being bound to ideas that women as a whole were likely to be vulnerable to mental illness. The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.
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