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Victorian Lunacy
S. E. D. Shortt
其他書名
Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
出版Cambridge University Press, 2011-02-17
主題Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)Medical / GeneralMedical / Laboratory MedicineMedical / PathologyMedical / PhysiciansMedical / Psychiatry / GeneralPsychology / Psychopathology / General
ISBN05211728299780521172820
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LCAhOFtDVooC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.