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A Mad People’s History of Madness

By Dale Peterson

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
1982
ISBN
0822934442, 9780822934448
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28056697 bytes)
Series
Contemporary community health series
Pages
381\384
Time added
2016-04-11 06:07:32
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Description

A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, “a London citizen” is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.

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