Madness : A Brief History

Name: Madness
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192802675
Price: 2700 KES
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ISBN: 9780192802675

by Roy Porter

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0192802674

ISBN-13 9780192802675

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 13th, 2003

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 218 grams

Dimensions 17.20 x 12.10 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: History of ideas History of ideas History of medicine Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Neurology and clinical neurophysiology Psychiatry Psychiatry

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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.

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