1st Edition
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction to the history of madness and mental health
Greg Eghigian
Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds
1. Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the
Roman-Byzantine period
Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert
2. Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Chiara Thumiger
3. Madness in the Middle Ages
Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden
Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools
4. Healers and healing in the early modern health care market
Elizabeth Mellyn
5. The asylum, hospital, and clinic
Andrew Scull
6. The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century
German E. Berrios and Ivana Marková
Part III. Beyond medicine
7. Psychiatry and religion
Rhodri Hayward
8. Madness in Western literature and the arts
Ilya Vinitsky
9. Psychiatry and its visual culture, c. 1800–1960
Andreas Killen
Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings
10. Madness and psychiatry in Latin America’s long nineteenth century
Manuella Meyer
11. Histories of madness in South Asia
Waltraud Ernst
12. Mad Africa
Sally Swartz
13. Voices of madness in Japan: narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in
modern literature
Akihito Suzuki
Part V. Perspectives and experiences
14. The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill: material culture and madness
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Biography
Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. His most recent book is The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany (2015). He is presently writing a book on the history of the UFO phenomenon.
"This wide-ranging collection examines the history of madness and mental illness from antiquity to contemporary pharmacology, broadening our understanding both geographically and chronologically. The authors attend carefully to the specificity of each historical context with interdisciplinary approaches that draw on the history of medicine, anthropology, emotion, law, sociology, everyday life, literature, philosophy, and religion. These accessible essays provide a valuable perspective on the lived experience of mental disorder and its interpretation relevant to scholars and students in the field and beyond."
Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
" (...) The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health remains an impressive and valuable contribution to the history of madness. It has established a new benchmark that will no doubt inspire future researchers in a number of different areas of study."
Michael Rembis, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
"It is an excellent colleciton of essays, woven together expertly by Eghigian's introduction, which traces the history of psyhiatry and adjacent fields through their different lineages, and draws out lient themes."
James Dunk, Health & History
