Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century

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Edited by Allan Ingram

Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Allan Ingram

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 30 September 1998

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ISBN: 0853239827 ISBN 13: 9780853239826

Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century

Draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalisation of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake, and Coleridge. Top page

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"Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century" draws together extracts from writing about madness between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a general decline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance in the professionalisation of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from the writings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake, and Coleridge. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Liverpool University Press

City: Liverpool

Pages: 352

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm weight 422 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 362.2094109033 Library of Congress Subject: Mental illness

Departments: Mental health services;

Record updated at: 08 February, 2013 time: 01:25


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