Masters of Bedlam : : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade /

Masters of Bedlam : : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade / / Andrew Scull, Nicholas Hervey, Charlotte MacKenzie.

Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Scull, Andrew,
Hervey, Nicholas,
MacKenzie, Charlotte,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1996
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 346
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
  • CHAPTER TWO. A Bethlemetical Mad-Doctor John Haslam (1764-1844)
  • CHAPTER THREE. A Brilliant Career7 John Conolly (1794-1866)
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Alienist as Propagandist WA F Browne (1805-1885)
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Treating the Mad outside Asylum Walls Sir Alexander Monson (1779-1866)
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Administration of Lunacy in Victorian England Samuel Gaskell (1807-1886)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. FromDiscipletoCntic Sir John Charles Bucknill (1817-1897)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Degeneration and Despair Henry Maudsley (1835-1918)
  • CHAPTER NINE. Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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