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- catalog abstract ""Professor Houston draws upon a wide range of contemporary sources, notable asylum documents, and civil and criminal court records, to present unique insights into the issues around madness, including the law of mental incapacity, the written and spoken words of sufferers themselves, and the vocabulary associated with insanity. The links between madness and a range of other issues are explored, including gender, social status, religion and witchcraft, in addition to the attributed causes of derangement such as heredity and alcohol abuse."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11653464.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Professor Houston draws upon a wide range of contemporary sources, notable asylum documents, and civil and criminal court records, to present unique insights into the issues around madness, including the law of mental incapacity, the written and spoken words of sufferers themselves, and the vocabulary associated with insanity. The links between madness and a range of other issues are explored, including gender, social status, religion and witchcraft, in addition to the attributed causes of derangement such as heredity and alcohol abuse."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Methodology -- Mental Incapacity in the Present and the Past -- 2. Sources and the Law -- 3. Patterns of Madness -- 4. Being Mad -- 5. Being Sane -- 6. Mind and Body: The Causes of Insanity -- 7. Madness and Religion -- 8. The Language of Insanity 1: Words About the Insane -- 9. The Language of Insanity 2: The Words of the Insane.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-441) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 450 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198207875 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in social history".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Scotland".
- catalog subject "2000 D-789".
- catalog subject "616.89/009411/09033 21".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders Scotland History.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Scotland History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Scotland Public opinion History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "RC450.G72 S364 2000".
- catalog subject "Social Conditions Scotland History.".
- catalog subject "Social psychiatry Scotland History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "WM 11 FS2 H843m 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Methodology -- Mental Incapacity in the Present and the Past -- 2. Sources and the Law -- 3. Patterns of Madness -- 4. Being Mad -- 5. Being Sane -- 6. Mind and Body: The Causes of Insanity -- 7. Madness and Religion -- 8. The Language of Insanity 1: Words About the Insane -- 9. The Language of Insanity 2: The Words of the Insane.".
- catalog title "Madness and society in eighteenth-century Scotland / R.A. Houston.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".