Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 440 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
ISBN: 978-0-521-30999-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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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List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on primary sources; Introduction; 1. The topography of a Victorian medical life; 2. The human ecology of the London Asylum; 3. Toward a secular physiology of mind; 4. The social genesis of etiological speculation; 5. Treatment tactics and professional aspirations; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
