{"product_id":"encyclopedia-of-asylum-therapeutics-1750-1950s-mary-de-young-9780786468973","title":"Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s","description":"\u003cp\u003e The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including \"awakening\" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary de Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786468971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786468973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Mary de Young","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45476865540351,"sku":"9780786468973","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e895b0e-d510-4869-a09c-552e276451ca.jpg?v=1715918384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/encyclopedia-of-asylum-therapeutics-1750-1950s-mary-de-young-9780786468973","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}