Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920

by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter

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An examination of the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease

Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1643360256

ISBN13:9781643360256

Release Date:August 2019

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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