Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

· Routledge
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This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83.

About the author

W.F. Bynum is Head of the joint Academic Unit for the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and University College London. Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Michael Shepherd is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry and Honorary Director, General Practice Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.

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