| Description |
xi, 223 pages : illustrations |
| Series |
The Squibb series |
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Squibb series
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| Contents |
The history of psychiatry as the history of an art / James Birley -- Medico-psychologists, Maudsley, and the Maudsley / Alexander Walk -- Hospitals, madhouses, and asylums / Patricia Allderidge -- Truth is a point of view / Thomas Gruffydd Davies -- Insanity and the realities of history in early modern England / Michael MacDonald -- Old familiar faces / Edward Hare -- Opium and the doctors / Virginia Berridge -- The nervous patient in 18th- and 19th-century Britain / William F. Bynum -- The diary of a madman, 17th-century style / Roy Porter -- Desperate remedies / Andrew Scull -- Rich and mad in Victorian England / Trevor Turner -- Memory and the cognitive paradigm of dementia during the 19th century / German Berrios |
| Analysis |
Psychiatry History |
| Notes |
Papers from the annual Squibb Lectures, initiated in 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History.
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Psychiatry -- History.
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Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History.
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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Psychiatry -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
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England. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
| Author |
Murray, Robin M., 1944-
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Turner, T. H
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Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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| ISBN |
0880486015 |
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090224132X |
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