Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century: A reader. hardcover 352 p.
内容
Draws together extracts from writing about madness between the lateseventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries, a period that saw a generaldecline in religious explanations for insanity and a corresponding advance inthe professionalisation of psychiatry. The book includes extracts from thewritings of Johnson, Boswell, Blake, and Coleridge.
