Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: January 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780472110353
Subjects: Psychiatry; Literary Criticism; Mental Illness; Mental Disorders; Special Subjects In Literature; Sociology; Mental illness in literature; Handicapped; Social Science / Handicapped; History; Psychology; General; Literature and mental illness
First sentence: Our first cases of the insane were probably the owners of those trepanned skulls frequently found in archeological digs from the Stone Age.