The Anatomy of madness
Subtitle: essays in the history of psychiatry
By: edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd.
Contributors: Bynum, W. F. 1943-; Porter, Roy, 1946-; Shepherd, Michael, 1923-; Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Publisher: Tavistock Publications
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Europe -- History.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Europe -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83"--V. 1, acknowledgements.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. People and ideas; title: v. 3. The asylum and its psychiatry.