A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Examines the human encounter with unreason in all its manifestations, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present. Looks at the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it
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From exorcism to mesmerism, from bedlam to victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, this book tells about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our various attempts to understand and treat it.
