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Roy PorterPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC438 .P67 2003 LOST&PD6-11/07 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and how such illness should be treated has varied wildly throughout recorded history, sometimes veering dangerously close to the arbitrariness Lee describes and often encompassing cures considerably worse than the illness itself. Beginning with 5,000-year-old skulls with tiny holes bored in them (to allow demons to escape), through conceptions of madness as an acute phase in the trial of souls, as an imbalance of “the humors,” as the “divine fury” of creative genius, or as the malfunctioning of brain chemistry, Porter shows the many ways madness has been perceived and misperceived in every historical period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- Originally published: 2002
Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Gods and demons - - Madness rationalized
- Fools and folly
- Locking up the mad
- Rise of psychiatry
- Mad
- Century of psychoanalysis?
- Conclusion: modern times, ancient problems?
- Further reading
- Index
ISBN
- 0192802674
- 9780192802675
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