Mariana Labarca

Itineraries and Languages of Madness in the Early Modern World (eBook, ePUB)

Family Experience, Legal Practice, and Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in Tuscany during the eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000405316
• Artikelnr.: 61775238

Autorenporträt

Mariana Labarca is Assistant Professor at the History Department of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Interdiction Procedures: A Context for Public Intervention
in Family Life 2. Mad Spendthrift Men: Prodigality as a Category of Mental
Incapacity 3. Beyond financial mismanagement: Interdictions by Reason of
Demenza 4. Spaces and Itineraries of Madness 5. Experts and Authorities on
Madness 6. Emotional Disturbances and the Circulation of the Languages of
Madness Conclusion