A Mad People’s History of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Mad People’s History of Madness write by Dale Peterson. This book was released on 1982-03-15. A Mad People’s History of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, "a London citizen" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.Dale Peterson has compiled twenty-seven selections dating from 1436 through 1976. He prefaces each excerpt with biographical information about the writer. Peterson's running commentary explains the national differences in mental health care and the historical changes that have take place in symptoms and treatment. He traces the development of the private madhouse system in England and the state-run asylum system in the United States. Included is the first comprehensive bibliography of writings by the mentally ill.
Madness and Civilization
Madness and Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness and Civilization write by Michel Foucault. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Madness and Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Mad Matters
Mad Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mad Matters write by Brenda A. LeFrançois. This book was released on 2013. Mad Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: ""An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad,' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves."" Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of ""mental illness."" The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.
The Invention of Madness
The Invention of Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Madness write by Emily Baum. This book was released on 2018-11-02. The Invention of Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.
Madness in Civilization
Madness in Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness in Civilization write by Andrew Scull. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Madness in Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
