From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Jansson, Åsa

From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030548049)

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From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Jansson, Åsa

From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

$59.99
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Jansson, Åsa

From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

$59.99
Format: Paperback
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1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification


Author: ﾅsa Jansson
ISBN-10: 303054804X
ISBN-13: 9783030548049
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2021
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.57d
By ﾅsa Jansson
By ﾅsa Jansson
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ﾅsa Jansson is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. She is a historian of psychiatry, with an interdisciplinary background encompassing intellectual history, the history of medicine and political science. She has published in leading journals in her field and beyond, and has communicated her research in other forums, including public exhibitions and festivals.

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