Book ID: CBB974890039

Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution (2020)

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Swedberg, Sarah L. (Author)


Lexington Books


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 276
Language: English

In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could cause the body politic to grow mentally or physically ill. This book is recommended for students and scholars of history, political science, legal studies, sociology, literature, psychology, and public health.

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Review Lawrence B. Goodheart (2021) Review of "Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 596-597). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pickren, Wade E.
Melling, Joseph
Adelman, Joseph M.
Richard H. Brown
Wehrman, Andrew
Wulf, Andrea
Concepts
Medicine and government
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Great Britain, colonies
Psychology
Time Periods
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Ancient
Places
United States
Great Britain
England
Carthage
Catalonia (Spain)
Sweden
Institutions
United States. Department of the Treasury
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
Royal Society of London
American Psychological Association
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