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Madmen and the bourgeoisie : a social history of insanity and psychiatry

Title
Madmen and the bourgeoisie : a social history of insanity and psychiatry / Klaus Doerner ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Jean Steinberg.
Author
Dörner, Klaus.
Publication
Oxford : B. Blackwell, 1981.

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Description
vi, 361 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Bürger und Irre. English
Alternative Title
Bürger und Irre.
Subject
  • Mentally ill > Treatment > History. > Europe
  • Psychiatry > Europe > History
  • Social psychiatry > Europe > History
  • Mentally ill > Europe > History
  • Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Europe > Histoire
  • Psychiatrie > Europe > Histoire
  • Psychiatrie sociale > Europe > Histoire
  • Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Traitement > Histoire. > Europe
  • Mentally ill
  • Mentally ill > Treatment
  • Psychiatry
  • Social conditions
  • Social psychiatry
  • Psychiatry > history
  • Sociology > history
  • Europe > Social conditions
  • Europe
  • Europe > Conditions sociales
  • Europe
  • North-western Europe Mentally ill persons Attitudes of society, 1600-1900
  • North-western Europe Medicine Psychiatry, 1600-1900
Genre/Form
  • Student Collection.
  • History
Note
  • Translation of: Bürger und Irre.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical notes and index.
Contents
I. Great Britain. The sequestration of irrationality and the public -- Industrial revolution, romanticism, psychiatric paradigm -- The reform movement and the dialectics of restraint -- II. France. Early theoretical and practical measures for the abolition of the Ancien Régime -- The revolution and the emancipation of the insane -- Psychiatric-sociological positivism -- III. Germany. Mercantilism and the cultured bourgeoisie (Bildungsbürgertum) -- Revolution from above and the obstructed psychiatric paradigm -- From the restoration to Bourgeois-natural scientific liberalism.
ISBN
  • 0631101810
  • 9780631101819
  • 0631137157
  • 9780631137153
LCCN
82185352
OCLC
  • ocm07912397
  • 7912397
  • SCSB-9777309
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library