Victorian Lunacy : Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry Hardback
by Samuel Edward Dole Shortt
Part of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine series
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Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry.
The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters.
Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.
Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective.
Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/07/1986
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- ISBN:9780521309998
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/07/1986
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- ISBN:9780521309998
