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The American Journal Of Insanity - Softcover

Utica State Hospital Press

 
9780461401677: The American Journal Of Insanity

Synopsis

The American Journal Of Insanity. The work is a 19th-century medical periodical published in Utica, edited by the officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum. It gathers scholarly articles on insanity, definitions and nature of the disease, case studies, and historical illustrations of insanity in literature. It also covers medical jurisprudence, statistics on the insane in the United States and Europe, and debates about asylum management and reform. The contents include definitions of insanity, discussions of monomania and moral insanity, and translations of European writings on brain pathology. The Journal presents notices of asylums in America and Europe, reports from Utica, and insights into daily life, routines, and moral and medical treatments, including arguments for humane care and sleep as a preventative. It frames mid-19th-century psychiatric discourse at the intersection of medicine, law, and morals, blending clinical observation with literary and philosophical reflection to illuminate the care of mental illness.

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