Victorian Lunacy
Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
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Part of Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
- Author: Samuel Edward Dole Shortt
- Date Published: February 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521172820
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Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum – is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.
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- Date Published: February 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521172820
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Note on primary sources
Introduction
1. The topography of a Victorian medical life
2. The human ecology of the London Asylum
3. Toward a secular physiology of mind
4. The social genesis of etiological speculation
5. Treatment tactics and professional aspirations
Epilogue
Notes
Index.
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