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Title:

Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen : the social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull, editor.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

1981

Description:

xv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Psychiatry--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Social psychiatry--Great Britain--History--19th century.
History of Medicine, 19th century.
Psychiatry--History.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Other Authors:

Scull, Andrew T.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull -- Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr. -- Phrenology and British alienists, ca. 1825-1845 / Roger Cooter -- Moral treatment reconsidered, some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry / Andrew Scull -- A generous confidence, Thomas Story Kirkbride's philosophy of asylum construction and management / Nancy J. Tomes -- The discovery of the asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the new American Republic / Andrew Scull -- The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 / John Walton -- The model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and its influence on the nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain / William Ll. Parry-Jones -- The paradox of prudence: mental health in the gilded age / Barbara Sicherman -- "A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict / Bonnie Ellen Blustein -- The rejection of psychological approaches to mental disorder in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry / Michael J.Clark -- Victorian women and insanity / Elaine Showalter -- Liberty and lunacy: the Victorians and wrongful confinement / Peter McCandless -- The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England / Roger Smith.

ISBN:

9780812278019
0812278011
9780812211191 (pbk.)
0812211197 (pbk.)
9780485300024
0485300028

OCLC:

(OCoLC)7704514

LCCN:

81003365

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)