TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,David
TI  - Histories of madness
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice,
SN  - 9781009671996
AV  - RC438 .W7 2026
U1  - 362.0903 23
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - History
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Open access; Specialized
N2  - Explores the historiography of madness in the Modern era, including landmark publications in the overlapping fields of the history of psychiatry and the history of lunatic asylums. As this examination of almost 200 academic works will demonstrate, the field is vast and highly contested, with researchers sometimes disagreeing about the basic terms of analysis. Nevertheless, from Foucault to Fanon, from Goffman to Gilman, these debates about social and medical responses to madness have inspired some of the most influential academic scholarship of the twentieth century
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009671996
ER  -