Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness

Name: Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness
Brand: Oxford University Press
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By Ann Goldberg

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Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum. Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 252
Release Date:: 1999-06-03
Publication Date:: 1998-12-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0195125819
ISBN13:: 9780195125818
Weight:: 565 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.9 cm

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