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Classic Text No. 128: Thomas Brown’s comments on Erasmus Darwin’s view on madness (2021)

Berrios, German E. (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 32
Issue: 4
Pages: 488-504
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X211033432

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X211033432

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In his book Observations on the Zoonomia of Erasmus Darwin MD, Thomas Brown included a critical chapter on the analysis of madness proposed by Darwin in Zoonomia. Although neither Darwin nor Brown are ground-breaking in their views on madness, they illustrate the transitional accounts of madness that were being entertained at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly among writers who had studied at Edinburgh University.

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