{"product_id":"victorian-lunacy-richard-m-bucke-and-the-practice-of-late-nineteenth-century-psychiatry-cambridge-studies-in-the-history-of-medicine-0521172829","title":"Victorian Lunacy: Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521172829\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Shortt, Samuel Edward Dole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51941709644064,"sku":"NEW0521172829","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/victorian-lunacy-richard-m-bucke-and-the-practice-of-late-nineteenth-century-psychiatry-cambridge-studies-in-the-history-of-medicine-0521172829","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}