Masters of Bedlam : the Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade.

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Scull, Andrew

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (376 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400864409
1400864402
0691637326
9780691637327

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Masters of Bedlam : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade.DDC classification:

616.89/00941/09034 20

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RC450.G7

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Summary: 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 the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unref.

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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 the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unref.

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