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Princeton, NJ:: Princeton University Press, 1996., 1996. 8vo. x, [2], 363, [1] pp. Figs., index. Near fine. ISBN: 0691002517 "Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unreformed Bedlam to the construction of a post-Darwinian bio-psychiatry centered on the new Maudsley Hospital, from a therapeutics of bleeding, purging, and close confinement through the era of moral treatment and nonrestraint to a fin-de-siecle degenerationism and despair, men claiming expertise in the…
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- Title Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
- Author Andrew Scull; Charlotte MacKenzie; Nicholas Hervey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Pages 374
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date December 14, 1998
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- ISBN 9780691002514 / 0691002517
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7.75 x 0.93 in (25.40 x 19.69 x 2.36 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.890
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