Description
| Product ID: | 9780192802675 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Madness |
| Subtitle: | A Brief History |
| Authors: | Author: Roy Porter |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | History of ideas, History of ideas, History of medicine, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Psychiatry, History of medicine, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Psychiatry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by ''madness'', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-03-13 |