Masters of Bedlam : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade by Charlotte MacKenzie; Nicholas Hervey; Andrew Scull - 1999

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 363 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings.

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. (psychology, psychiatry, science) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 363p., b/w illus., stiff wrappers.

Princeton, NJ:: Princeton University Press, 1996., 1996. 8vo. x, [2], 363, [1] pp. Figs., index. Near fine. ISBN: 0691002517 "Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unreformed Bedlam to the construction of a post-Darwinian bio-psychiatry centered on the new Maudsley Hospital, from a therapeutics of bleeding, purging, and close confinement through the era of moral treatment and nonrestraint to a fin-de-siecle degenerationism and despair, men claiming expertise in the… Read More

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