{"product_id":"victorian-lunacy-shortt-samuel-edward-dole-9780521172820","title":"Victorian Lunacy: Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry","description":"Using the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Edward Dole Shortt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521172829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521172820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Samuel Edward Dole Shortt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054477111551,"sku":"9780521172820","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26e5f521-8efa-4f3b-9fc1-f7d13326fda4.jpg?v=1685030200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/victorian-lunacy-shortt-samuel-edward-dole-9780521172820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}