Pietikainen, Petteri.

Madness a history / [electronic resource] : Petteri Pietikainen. - London : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (vi, 346 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Madness from antiquity to the age of the Enlightenment -- pt. 2. The great transformation : medicalization of madness in the long nineteenth century -- pt. 3. Naming and managing madness in the golden age of asylums -- pt. 4. Madness in the Cold War era and beyond.

9781315708966 (ebook : PDF)


Mental illness--History.
Mental illness--Social aspects--History.
Mental illness--Treatment--History.
Psychiatric hospitals--History.
Psychiatry--History.