Social Order/Mental Disorder

Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-415-03636-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, Gewicht: 454 g

Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scull, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Reflections on the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. A Convenient Place to Get Rid of Inconvenient People: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth Century America 11. Sex and Madness 12. Cyclical Trends in Psychiatric Practice: The Case of Bettleheim and Tuke 13. The Theory and Practice of Civil Commitment 14. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care