Madness
Subtitle: an American history of mental illness and its treatment
By: Mary de Young
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780786433988
Subjects: Mental illness; Therapy; Treatment; History; Mental Disorders; Psychiatric Hospitals; Psychiatric hospitals
Other titles: American history of mental illness and its treatment
Description: "This book exercises the sociological imagination to explore some questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors are labeled mad; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people; and by whom the label and its consequences are applied"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is madness?; title: The experience of madness; title: Distracted in the colonies; title: Asylums; title: Asylum patients; title: Asylum therapeutics.