Making madness visible : a cultural history of how mental disorder is visualised / Alvise Sforza Tarabochia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sforza Tarabochia, Alvise, author.

Series:

Liverpool studies in health, disability, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Cultural history of how mental disorder is visualised

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2026.

Summary:

How shall we know insanity from sanity? This title offers a cultural history of the many ways insanity has been visualised, and how such representations have shaped our understanding of mental disorder itself. From medieval depictions of the fool, to the early modern 'stone of folly' and convulsive dances, to the walls of the asylum and modern brain scans, visual tropes have long governed how societies distinguish sanity from insanity. Yet these images do more than illustrate. They define, marginalise, and other. By making madness visible, they mark the insane as aberrant and apart - while at the same time also exposing the instability of those very boundaries. Tracing this restless history of visualisation, Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia shows how madness has continually troubled borders between reason and unreason, norm and deviance, humanity and inhumanity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781805968412

1805968416

OCLC:

1547279447

Publisher Number:

90104611972

CIPO000380065