Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany
Subtitle: A History of Psychiatric Practice (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780801441950
Subjects: History of medicine; Psychiatry; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Mental illness; History; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Germany; Europe - Germany; Psychiatry - General; 19th century
First sentence: In the spring of 1868, one of Prussia's most prominent and influential psychiatrists, Heinrich Laehr, took up his pen and wrote a spirited and polemical defense of his young profession.