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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

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Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / by Vacek, Heather H., 1969-

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Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / by Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : colonizing the mind -- Madness and the politics of colonial rule: Ideological positions ; Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion ; The sick, the poor and the mad ; Administrative reforms and legal provision -- The institutions: The role of institutionalization ; Towards uniformity ; Inside the institutions -- The medical profession: The search for fortune and professional recognition ; The medicalization of madness ; The subordination of 'native' medicine ; Medicine and empire -- The patients: 'Highly irregular conduct' and 'neglect of duty' ; 'Drawn very much from the same class' ; A passage from India ; The changing fortunes of asylum inmates ; Being insane in British India -- Medical theories and practices: Popular images and medical concepts ; 'Moral' therapy, 'mental' illness and 'physical' derangement ; Diagnostics and therapeutic practice ; Aetiology and prognosis ; Treatment ; The question of 'non-restraint' ; Social discrimination, racial prejudice and medical concepts ; East is East, and West is best -- Conclusion : 'Mad dogs and Englishmen-- '.…”
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Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / by Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : colonizing the mind -- Madness and the politics of colonial rule: Ideological positions ; Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion ; The sick, the poor and the mad ; Administrative reforms and legal provision -- The institutions: The role of institutionalization ; Towards uniformity ; Inside the institutions -- The medical profession: The search for fortune and professional recognition ; The medicalization of madness ; The subordination of 'native' medicine ; Medicine and empire -- The patients: 'Highly irregular conduct' and 'neglect of duty' ; 'Drawn very much from the same class' ; A passage from India ; The changing fortunes of asylum inmates ; Being insane in British India -- Medical theories and practices: Popular images and medical concepts ; 'Moral' therapy, 'mental' illness and 'physical' derangement ; Diagnostics and therapeutic practice ; Aetiology and prognosis ; Treatment ; The question of 'non-restraint' ; Social discrimination, racial prejudice and medical concepts ; East is East, and West is best -- Conclusion : 'Mad dogs and Englishmen-- '.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Applied ethics in mental health care : an interdisciplinary reader /

Table of Contents: “…Silverman, and David H. Brendel -- Professional boundaries in the era of the internet / Glen O. …”
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Applied ethics in mental health care : an interdisciplinary reader /

Table of Contents: “…Silverman, and David H. Brendel -- Professional boundaries in the era of the internet / Glen O. …”
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Minds on trial great cases in law and psychology / by Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…George Metesky : profiling the "Mad Bomber" -- Lee Harvey Oswald : the formative years of an assassin -- Patricia Hearst : uncommon victim or common criminal? …”
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Minds on trial great cases in law and psychology / by Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…George Metesky : profiling the "Mad Bomber" -- Lee Harvey Oswald : the formative years of an assassin -- Patricia Hearst : uncommon victim or common criminal? …”
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From Shtetl to Stardom : Jews and Hollywood /

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From Shtetl to Stardom : Jews and Hollywood /

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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.…”
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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression.…”
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Contemporary Criminological Issues : Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion /

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Contemporary Criminological Issues : Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion /

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