Format:
1 online resource (xi, 295 pages)
ISBN:
9780203493748
,
9781135050283
,
9781135050269
,
9781135050276
Content:
1. Informal insanity in the eighteenth-century court -- 2. The medical discourse of 'moral insanity' -- 3. The rise of psychiatry in the post-M'Naghten years -- 4. Culture and moral insanity : selfhood and social degeneration -- 5. Moral imbecility : feeblemindedness and the road to eugenics -- 6. Psychopathy in the US : psychiatry, psychoanalysis and sexual selves -- 7. Social formulation of psychopathy and therapeutic communites -- 8. DSM and the proliferation of personality disorders -- 9. Shifting grounds : the mass media and the insanity defence -- 10. Concluding discussion : the contemporary debates: policy, theory and treatment.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415502061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415502177
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415502061
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203493748
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