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Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

Mary de Young
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      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. Three centuries of asylum therapeutics 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mary de Young EAN: 9780786468973 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-02-24 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

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      Psychology

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      Mary de Young, a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, USA lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
      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. Three centuries of asylum therapeutics 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Mary de Young EAN: 9780786468973 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-02-24 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

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      Psychology

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

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