This volume explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Covering Africa, Asia and South America as well as Europe and North America, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, madness within life histories and the increased globalization of knowledge and treatment practices. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging and providing a fascinating overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of…mehr
This volume explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the present day. Covering Africa, Asia and South America as well as Europe and North America, chapters discuss broad topics such as the representation of madness in literature and the visual arts, the material culture of madness, madness within life histories and the increased globalization of knowledge and treatment practices. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging and providing a fascinating overview of the current state of the field, this is essential reading for all students of the history of madness, mental health, psychiatry and medicine.
Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of the UFO phenomenon.
Inhaltsangabe
List of figures List of contributors Introduction to the history of madness and mental health Greg Eghigian Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds 1. Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert 2. Ancient Greek and Roman traditions Chiara Thumiger 3. Madness in the Middle Ages Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools 4. Healers and healing in the early modern health care market Elizabeth Mellyn 5. The asylum, hospital, and clinic Andrew Scull 6. The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková Part III. Beyond medicine 7. Psychiatry and religion Rhodri Hayward 8. Madness in Western literature and the arts Ilya Vinitsky 9. Psychiatry and its visual culture, c. 1800-1960 Andreas Killen Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings 10. Madness and psychiatry in Latin America's long nineteenth century Manuella Meyer 11. Histories of madness in South Asia Waltraud Ernst 12. Mad Africa Sally Swartz 13. Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature Akihito Suzuki Part V. Perspectives and experiences 14. The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture and madness Benoît Majerus 15. From the perspectives of mad people Geoffrey Reaume 16. Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness Jesse Ballenger Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments 17. Passions and moods Laura Hirshbein 18. Psychosis Richard Noll 19. Somatic treatments Jonathan Sadowsky 20. Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections Sonu Shamdasani 21. The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient- empowerment in diagnosis and treatment Toine Pieters Index
List of figures List of contributors Introduction to the history of madness and mental health Greg Eghigian Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds 1. Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert 2. Ancient Greek and Roman traditions Chiara Thumiger 3. Madness in the Middle Ages Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools 4. Healers and healing in the early modern health care market Elizabeth Mellyn 5. The asylum, hospital, and clinic Andrew Scull 6. The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková Part III. Beyond medicine 7. Psychiatry and religion Rhodri Hayward 8. Madness in Western literature and the arts Ilya Vinitsky 9. Psychiatry and its visual culture, c. 1800-1960 Andreas Killen Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings 10. Madness and psychiatry in Latin America's long nineteenth century Manuella Meyer 11. Histories of madness in South Asia Waltraud Ernst 12. Mad Africa Sally Swartz 13. Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature Akihito Suzuki Part V. Perspectives and experiences 14. The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture and madness Benoît Majerus 15. From the perspectives of mad people Geoffrey Reaume 16. Dementia: confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness Jesse Ballenger Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments 17. Passions and moods Laura Hirshbein 18. Psychosis Richard Noll 19. Somatic treatments Jonathan Sadowsky 20. Psychotherapy in society: historical reflections Sonu Shamdasani 21. The antidepressant era revisited: towards differentiation and patient- empowerment in diagnosis and treatment Toine Pieters Index
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