Inheriting Madness : Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France


Ian. Dowbiggin
Bok Engelsk 1991 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 1991.
Omfang
1 online resource (228 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The State of Psychiatric Practice and Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century; 2. François Leuret and Medical Opposition to Moral Treatment, 1835-1850; 3. Jacques Moreau de Tours and the Crisis of Somaticism in French Psychiatry, 1840-1860; 4. Alienism and the Psychiatric Search for a Professional Identity: The Société médico-psychologique, 1840-1870; 5. French Alienism and Antipsychiatry, 1860-1900; 6. Hereditarianism, the Clinic, and Psychiatric Practice in Nineteenth-Century France. - 7. Science, Politics, and Psychiatric Hereditarianism in the Nineteenth CenturyConclusion: The Social History of Psychiatric Knowledge; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y. - Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness, Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity of hereditarianism in France during the second half of the nineteenth century to illuminate the nature and evolution of psychiatry during this period.In Dowbiggin's mind, this fondness for hereditarianism stemmed from the need to reconcile two counteracting factors. On the one hand, psychiatrists were attempting to expand their power and privileges by excluding other groups from the treatment
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