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OverviewThe Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Global in scope, it includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and South America as well as Europe and North America, drawing together the latest scholarship and source material in this growing field and allowing for fresh comparisons to be made across time and space. Thematically organised and written by leading academics, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, the perpetual difficulty of creating a classification system for madness and mental health, madness within life histories, the increased globalisation of knowledge and treatment practices, and the persistence of spiritual and supernatural conceptualisations of experiences associated with madness. This volume also examines the challenges involved in analysing primary sources in this area and how key themes such as class, gender, and race have influenced the treatment and diagnosis of madness throughout history. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging, and providing a fascinating overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of the history of madness, mental health, psychiatry, and medicine. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Greg Eghigian (Penn State University, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.940kg ISBN: 9781138781603ISBN 10: 1138781606 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 19 April 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback 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 Benoît Majerus 15. From the perspectives of mad people Geoffrey Reaume 16. Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness Jesse Ballenger Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments 17. Passions and moods Laura Hirshbein 18. Psychosis Richard Noll 19. Somatic treatments Jonathan Sadowsky 20. Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections Sonu Shamdasani 21. The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient- empowerment in diagnosis and treatment Toine Pieters IndexReviewsThis 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 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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