Sex, religion, and the making of modern madness: the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849
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Main Author: Goldberg, Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index
The Duchy of Nassau and the Eberbach Asylum -- Religious madness in the Vormärz : culture, politics, and the professionalization of psychiatry -- Religious madness and the formation of patients -- Medical representations of sexual madness : nymphomania and masturbatory insanity -- Doctors and patients : the practice(s) of nymphomania -- Women, sex, and rural life -- Masturbatory insanity and delinquency -- Jews and the criminalization of madness
Drawing upon a rich set of asylum patient case records, this book reconstructs the encounter of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy at a transitional period in German and psychiatry history. Focusing on religious madness, nymphomania, masturbatory insanity, and Jewishness, this study probes the daily encounters in which psychiatric categories were applied, experienced, and resisted in the settings of family, village, and insane asylum.; Goldberg's careful examination sheds light on a range of issues concerning gender, sexuality, religious politics, class relations, state-building, and anti-Semitism
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 236 p.)
ISBN:0195125819
0195140524
0195352181
1280471778
9780195125818
9780195140521
9780195352184
9781280471773

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