Book ID: CBB954758413

Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750–1950s (2015)

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Mary de Young (Author)


McFarland


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 504 pages
Language: English

The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including “awakening” patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Jonathan
Baur, Nicole
Borges, Viviane Trindade
Boyce, Niall
Dilling, Horst
Ernst, Waltraud
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of American Culture
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Grand Central Publishing
Routledge
Thames & Hudson
Open University (United Kingdom)
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Patients
Colonialism
People
Clark, David
Griesinger, Wilhelm
Roth, Martin
Willis, Francis
Rosenhan, David
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Brazil
Berlin (Germany)
Korea
Denmark
Institutions
Manicomio General La Castañeda (Psychiatric Hospital)
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