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Bedlam in the New World : a Mexican madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment / Christina Ramos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramos, Christina (Historian), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico)--History.
- Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico).
- Psychiatric hospitals--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychiatry--Mexico--History.
- Psychiatry.
- Enlightenment--Mexico.
- Enlightenment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Casting Light from the Margins
- Bedlam in the New World
- An Enlightened Madhouse
- It Is Easy to Mistake a Heretic for a Madman: The View from the Inquisition
- Medicalization and Its Discontents
- Crime and Punishment
- Conclusion: A Defense of Bedlam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781469666594 (electronic bk.)
- 1469666596 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99992353668
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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