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- catalog abstract "In this book, Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes explore the historical roots of Americans' understanding of madness today. Drawing on a rich array of sources, the authors interweave the perceptions of medical practitioners, the mentally ill and their families, and journalists, poets, novelists, and artists. As they trace successive ways of explaining madness and treating those judged insane, Gamwell and Tomes vividly depict the political and cultural dimensions of American attitudes toward mental illness. Gamwell and Tomes observe telling differences in the ways in which patients of different genders, races, and classes have been diagnosed and treated. The authors demonstrate how definitions of madness figured in national debates over abolitionism, women's rights, and alternative medicine. Madness in America also considers how the boundaries between sanity and insanity have been repeatedly redrawn in such areas as sexual behavior and criminality.".
- catalog alternative "Cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914".
- catalog contributor b7583540.
- catalog contributor b7583541.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "In this book, Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes explore the historical roots of Americans' understanding of madness today. Drawing on a rich array of sources, the authors interweave the perceptions of medical practitioners, the mentally ill and their families, and journalists, poets, novelists, and artists. As they trace successive ways of explaining madness and treating those judged insane, Gamwell and Tomes vividly depict the political and cultural dimensions of American attitudes toward mental illness. Gamwell and Tomes observe telling differences in the ways in which patients of different genders, races, and classes have been diagnosed and treated. The authors demonstrate how definitions of madness figured in national debates over abolitionism, women's rights, and alternative medicine. Madness in America also considers how the boundaries between sanity and insanity have been repeatedly redrawn in such areas as sexual behavior and criminality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-176) and index.".
- catalog description "Madness and the asylum in early America : the seventeenth century to the 1810s -- The asylum in Antebellum America : the 1820s to the 1860s -- American nervousness : 1870 to 1914.".
- catalog extent "182 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Madness in America.".
- catalog identifier "0801431611".
- catalog isFormatOf "Madness in America.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press ; Binghamton, N.Y. : Binghamton University Art Museum,".
- catalog relation "Madness in America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "362.2/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Community Psychiatry United States History.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders United States History.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness United States Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry United States History.".
- catalog subject "RC443 .G35 1995".
- catalog subject "Social psychiatry United States History.".
- catalog subject "WM 11 AA1 G194m 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Madness and the asylum in early America : the seventeenth century to the 1810s -- The asylum in Antebellum America : the 1820s to the 1860s -- American nervousness : 1870 to 1914.".
- catalog title "Cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914".
- catalog title "Madness in America : cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914 / Lynn Gamwell and Nancy Tomes.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".