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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Greg Eghigian (Penn State University, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.694kg ISBN: 9780367869960ISBN 10: 0367869969 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 12 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Introduction to the history of madness and mental health Greg Eghigian Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds 1. Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert 2. Ancient Greek and Roman traditions Chiara Thumiger 3. Madness in the Middle Ages Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools 4. Healers and healing in the early modern health care market Elizabeth Mellyn 5. The asylum, hospital, and clinic Andrew Scull 6. The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková Part III. Beyond medicine 7. Psychiatry and religion Rhodri Hayward 8. Madness in Western literature and the arts Ilya Vinitsky 9. Psychiatry and its visual culture, c. 1800–1960 Andreas Killen Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings 10. Madness and psychiatry in Latin America’s long nineteenth century Manuella Meyer 11. Histories of madness in South Asia Waltraud Ernst 12. Mad Africa Sally Swartz 13. Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature Akihito Suzuki Part V. Perspectives and experiences 14. The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture and madness BeReviewsThis wide-ranging collection examines the history of madness and mental illness from antiquity to contemporary pharmacology, broadening our understanding both geographically and chronologically. The authors attend carefully to the specificity of each historical context with interdisciplinary approaches that draw on the history of medicine, anthropology, emotion, law, sociology, everyday life, literature, philosophy, and religion. These accessible essays provide a valuable perspective on the lived experience of mental disorder and its interpretation relevant to scholars and students in the field and beyond. Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (...) The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health remains an impressive and valuable contribution to the history of madness. It has established a new benchmark that will no doubt inspire future researchers in a number of different areas of study. Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo (SUNY) It is an excellent colleciton of essays, woven together expertly by Eghigian's introduction, which traces the history of psyhiatry and adjacent fields through their different lineages, and draws out lient themes. James Dunk, Health & History This wide-ranging collection examines the history of madness and mental illness from antiquity to contemporary pharmacology, broadening our understanding both geographically and chronologically. The authors attend carefully to the specificity of each historical context with interdisciplinary approaches that draw on the history of medicine, anthropology, emotion, law, sociology, everyday life, literature, philosophy, and religion. These accessible essays provide a valuable perspective on the lived experience of mental disorder and its interpretation relevant to scholars and students in the field and beyond. Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (...) The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health remains an impressive and valuable contribution to the history of madness. It has established a new benchmark that will no doubt inspire future researchers in a number of different areas of study. Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo (SUNY) It is an excellent colleciton of essays, woven together expertly by Eghigian's introduction, which traces the history of psyhiatry and adjacent fields through their different lineages, and draws out lient themes. James Dunk, Health & History This wide-ranging collection examines the history of madness and mental illness from antiquity to contemporary pharmacology, broadening our understanding both geographically and chronologically. The authors attend carefully to the specificity of each historical context with interdisciplinary approaches that draw on the history of medicine, anthropology, emotion, law, sociology, everyday life, literature, philosophy, and religion. These accessible essays provide a valuable perspective on the lived experience of mental disorder and its interpretation relevant to scholars and students in the field and beyond. Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (...) The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health remains an impressive and valuable contribution to the history of madness. It has established a new benchmark that will no doubt inspire future researchers in a number of different areas of study. Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo (SUNY) It is an excellent colleciton of essays, woven together expertly by Eghigian's introduction, which traces the history of psyhiatry and adjacent fields through their different lineages, and draws out lient themes. James Dunk, Health & History Author InformationGreg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of the UFO phenomenon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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