Tous les livres numériques de la collection Mental Health in Historical Perspective

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Filippo Maria Sposini The Certification of Insanity This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-11-30 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Rob Ellis , Jennifer Wallis , Rebecca Wynter Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-07-19 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
David Gentilcore , Egidio Priani Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, and which was first identified in Italy in the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2023-04-30 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jason Crowley , Kathryn Hurlock , Owen Rees Combat Stress in Pre-modern Europe This book examines the lasting impact of war on individuals and their communities in pre-modern Europe. Research on combat stress in the modern era regularly draws upon the past for inspiration and validation, but to date no single volume has effectively scrutinised the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-10-31 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ana Antic Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav ‘psy’ sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and globalisations in the post-WWII period. These unique transnational... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-01-18 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : ePub 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Emese Lafferton Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century This book provides the first comprehensive study of the history of Hungarian psychiatry between 1850 and 1920, placed in both an Austro-Hungarian and wider European comparative framework. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book captures the institutional worlds... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-11-29 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jesper Vaczy Kragh Lobotomy Nation This book tells the story of one of medicine’s most (in)famous treatments: the neurosurgical operation commonly known as lobotomy. Invented by Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz in 1935, lobotomy or psychosurgery became widely used in a number of countries, including... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-10-09 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Rosemary Golding Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-09-01 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 58,01 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Robert Ellis , Sarah Kendal , Steven J. Taylor Voices in the History of Madness This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-05-12 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Claire Hilton Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-10-30 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Åsa Jansson From Melancholia to Depression This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-09-21 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Leonard Smith Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815 This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-06-18 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sarah Marks , Mat Savelli Psychiatry in Communist Europe This is the first book to address the history of psychiatry under Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Soviet Union to East Germany. It brings together new research addressing understandings of mental health and disorder, treatments and therapies, and the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-05-26 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Robert Ellis London and its Asylums, 1888-1914 This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-05-20 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Stef Eastoe Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-02-19 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Catharine Coleborne Why Talk About Madness? This short book argues for the relevance of historical perspectives on mental health, exploring how these histories can and should inform debates about mental healthcare today. Why is it important to study the history of madness? What does it mean to voice these... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-01-13 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hannah Proctor Psychologies in Revolution This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-01-13 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
David Freis Psycho-Politics between the World Wars This book is about the psycho-political visions and programmes in early-twentieth century Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Amidst the political and social unrest that followed the First World War, psychiatrists attempted to use their clinical insights to understand,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-11-07 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 60,12 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jennifer S. Kain Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930 This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with operating the legislation to be non-psychiatric gatekeepers who struggled to match its... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-10-03 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Alice Brumby , Steven J. Taylor Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-09-16 Collection : Mental Health in Historical Perspective Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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