Social Order/mental Disorder : Anglo-American Psychiatry In Historical Perspective

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Contents

          Acknowledgments

          Chapter One  Reflections on the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry
         Chapter Two  Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry
         Chapter Three  The Domestication of Madness
         Chapter Four  Moral Treatment Reconsidered
         Chapter Five  The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic
         Chapter Six  From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs
         Chapter Seven  John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career
         Chapter Eight  Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum
         Chapter Nine  Was Insanity Increasing?
         Chapter Ten  Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth-Century America
         Chapter Eleven  Dazeland
         Chapter Twelve  The Theory and Practice of Civil Commitment
         Chapter Thirteen  The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care

         Selected Bibliography
         Index