Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness: the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849

Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, an...

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Contributors: Goldberg, Ann (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford University Press 1999
In:Year: 1999
Further subjects:B Mental Illness (Germany) History 19th century
B Psychiatry History Germany
B Sexual Behavior history
B Eberbach (Asylum)
B Sexual Behavior History Germany
B History
B Mental Disorders History Germany
B PSYCHOLOGY ; Clinical Psychology
B MEDICAL ; Mental Health
B Eberbach (Asylum) History 19th century
B Psychotherapist and patient History 19th century Germany
B Psychiatry history
B Electronic books Germany
B Hospitals, Psychiatric history
B Electronic books
B Mental Illness History 19th century Germany
B Psychiatry (Germany) History 19th century
B Mental Disorders history
B Psychiatric hospitals Sociological aspects Germany
B PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychopathology ; General
B Religion and Medicine Germany
B Mental Illness
B Hospitals, Psychiatric History Germany
B Psychiatric hospitals ; Sociological aspects
B Psychiatry History 19th century Germany
B Eberbach (Asylum) Eberbach (Asylum) 1800 - 1899
B Electronic books History
B Psychotherapist and patient
B Eberbach (Asylum) History 19th century
B Psychiatric hospitals (Germany) Sociological aspects
B PSYCHOLOGY ; Mental Illness
B Psychotherapist and patient (Germany) History 19th century
B Religion and Medicine
B MEDICAL ; Psychiatry ; General
B Psychiatry
B Germany
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