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Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness : the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849 / Ann Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldberg, Ann (Ann E.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eberbach (Asylum)--History--19th century.
- Eberbach (Asylum).
- Psychiatry--Germany--History--19th century.
- Psychiatry.
- Mental illness--Germany--History--19th century.
- Mental illness.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Germany--Sociological aspects.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychotherapist and patient--Germany--History--19th century.
- Psychotherapist and patient.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Sociological aspects.
- History.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced and resisted in the settings of family, village and insane asylum.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and publisher information
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780197561348
- 0197561349
- OCLC:
- 1222774517
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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