1.Introduction 2. Elizabethan Melancholy 3. The English Malady 4. The Moral Managers 5. Masturbational Insanity 6. Femininity and Illness 7. Pauper Lunacy 8. The Tyranny of Organization 9. Conclusion.
Biography
Vieda Skultans is an emerita professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bristol where she worked from 1971 until 2009. Since 2009 she has taught Anthropology at the University of Latvia and at the Stradiņa Medical University in Riga. Her research and publications lie broadly in the fields of spirit possession, healing, psychiatric practice and the emergence of new diagnoses, social memory and life narratives. Her field work has been conducted in South Wales, Maharashtra, the Kathmandu Valley, Ukraine and Latvia.
Original Review of English Madness:
‘…contributes significantly to this historical discourse…’ Nancy M. Theriot, The Journal of Psychohistory, Volume 15, Issue 4
