Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849
Drawing on the case records of several hundred asylum patients, this book reconstructs the encounters of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy during a transitional period in the history of Germany and psychiatry.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ;
Oxford University Press
2023.
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| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798224506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum
- State-building and the Origins of the Asylum
- Asylum Administration
- Anthropological Psychiatry and Moral Treatment
- Economic Crisis and the Social World of the Patients
- Part I: RELIGION
- 2 Religious Madness in the Vormärz: Culture, Politics, and the Professionalization of Psychiatry
- Bourgeois Culture
- The Politics of Religion
- The Professionalization of Psychiatry
- 3 Religious Madness and the Formation of Patients
- Mental Trauma and the Supernatural
- The Medicalization of Religious Madness
- State and Asylum
- Reshaping the Self
- Instilling Conscience
- Part II: SEXUALITY AND GENDER
- 4 Medical Representations of Sexual Madness: Nymphomania and Masturbatory Insanity
- Nymphomania
- Male Masturbation
- Gendered Models of Sexual Pathology
- Public versus Private Symptoms
- Aggression versus Passivity
- The Gendering of Brunonianism
- Repression and the Production of Desire
- The Construction of Femininity and Masculinity
- 5 Doctors and Patients: The Practice(s) of Nymphomania
- Social Class and Illness
- Power and Resistance: The Doctor-Patient Relationship
- The Formation of "Sexuality"
- 6 Women, Sex, and Rural Life
- Rural Sex Norms and "Man-Craziness"
- Medicine and Community in the Making of a Nymphomaniac
- Man-Craziness: Personal and Social Narratives of Sex
- Marital Strife and the Language of Accusation
- Single Women and the Language of Desire
- Part III: DELINQUENCY AND CRIMINALITY
- 7 Masturbatory Insanity and Delinquency
- The Case of Johann A.
- Institutions and Lower-Class Masturbators
- Families, Experts, and Middle-Class Masturbators
- 8 Jews and the Criminalization of Madness
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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