Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

ISBN-13: 9780786468973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 376 str.

Mary De Young

Opis

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. It 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.