Mary De Young

Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780786468973
• ISBN-10: 0786468971
• Artikelnr.: 41253851

Autorenporträt

Mary de Young, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
vi Preface
1 The Entries Awakenings
5 Bed Therapy
7 Cerebral Stimulation (Psychic Stimulation)
13 Color Cure (Chromotherapy, Colorology)
22 Counterirritation
26 Deep Sleep Therapy (Prolonged Narcosis, Prolonged Sleep, Continuous Sleep)
44 Depletive Therapy ("Heroic Therapy," Antiphlogistic Therapy, "Rush's System")
52 Diet
71 Electrotherapy
82 Etherization
96 Exodontia
98 Expressive Therapy
101 Fever Therapy (Pyrotherapy, Pyretotherapy)
120 Fixing (The Eye, Catching the Eye, the Gaze, the Clinical Gaze)
137 Forced Feeding (Forced Alimentation, Gavage)
141 Genital Surgery
152 Hydrotherapy (Hydropathy)
164 Hypothermia (Cold Narcosis, Refrigeration Therapy, Frozen Sleep)
188 Isolation
191 Masks, Gags and Toggles
205 Mechanical Restraints
208 Metallotherapy (Metalloscopy, Burquism)
239 Moral Treatment (Moral Management, Moral Therapy)
242 Organotherapy (Opotherapy, Séquardotherapy, Histotherapy, Zootherapy, Materia Medica Animalis)
254 Orthomolecular Therapy
261 Ovarian Compression
264 Phototherapy (Light Therapy)
267 Pious Frauds (Salutary Demonstrations, Innocent Ruses, Curative Ruses, Suggestive Therapies)
270 Psychic Driving, Accelerated Psychotherapy, or Automated Psychotherapy
275 Psychosurgery
277 Rotation, Oscillation and Vibration
295 Salutary Fear
306 Shock Therapy (Convulsive Therapy)
322 Surgery
346 Total Push
351 Index
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