Mad Tuscans and Their Families : : A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy / / Elizabeth W. Mellyn.
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their hous...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A note on dates and money
- Introduction. The Tales Madness Tells
- Chapter 1. Incapacity, Guardianship, and the Tuscan Family
- Chapter 2. "Madness Is Punishment Enough"
- Chapter 3. Spending Without Measure
- Chapter 4. From Madness to Sickness
- Chapter 5. The Curious Case of Forensic Medicine
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments