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Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have

Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person�

"This book explores the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth

Mental health and madness have been challenging topics for historians. The field has been marked by tension between the study of power, expertise and institutio

Pt. 1. Literatures and sciences -- pt. 2. Disciplinary and theoretical approaches -- pt. 3. Periods and cultures.