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Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature

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Thiher, Allen, 1941-

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University of Michigan Press

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Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin

Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world

Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly

Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes

The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines

Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment

Part the modernity of madness

The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry

Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness

Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis

Modernist poetic discourse in madness

The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos

Postscript: madness between history and neurology

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Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin

Discourses on madness in the Greco-Roman world

Continuities and ruptures in Medieval folly

Madness and early modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes

The iatro-mechanical era and the madness of machines

Neoclassicism, the rise of singularity, and moral treatment

Part the modernity of madness

The German romantics and the invention of psychiatry

Pathological anatomy and the poetics of madness

Modern determinations of insanity: psychiatry and psychoanalysis

Modernist poetic discourse in madness

The contemporary scene's affirmation of and rebellion against logos

Postscript: madness between history and neurology

Notes

Index.

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Subjects

Dans la littérature
Electronic books
Histoire
History
Letterkunde
Literatur
Literature and mental illness
Littérature et maladies mentales
Maladies mentales
Maladies mentales -- Dans la littérature
Maladies mentales -- Histoire
Maladies mentales dans la littérature
Medicine in Literature
Mental Disorders
Mental illness
Mental illness -- History
Mental illness in literature
Médecine dans la littérature
People with Disabilities
Psychiatrie
Psychiatrie -- Histoire
Psychiatry
Psychiatry -- History
Psychische stoornissen
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities

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9780472110353
9786613831804
9780472089994
9781283519359
9780472024476
9781282463127
9786612463129

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