Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world
Summary
"This book examines the influence of gender and family values on the development of nineteenth-century French psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis
Asylum Psychiatry, bourgeois family, history of french psychiatry, nineteenth-century insane asylums, gender post-revolutionary france
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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