Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature

Author(s)

• Thiher, Allen

Bibliographic Information

Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature

Allen Thiher

（Corporealities : discourses of disability）

University of Michigan Press, 2004, c1999

Note

"First paperback edition 2004" -- T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'Revels in Madness' provides a history of Western culture's shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge at any given time.

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Details

• NCID: BA84432384
• ISBN:
  • 0472089994
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ann Arbor
• Pages/Volumes: 354 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.M45
  • DC21 : 809/.93353
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature and mental illness
  • LCSH : Mental illness in literature
  • LCSH : Mental illness -- History
  • LCSH : Psychiatry -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA46350886