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

ISBN: 1643360256

ISBN13: 9781643360256

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

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,...

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