Rituals of diagnosis : insanity, medicine, and violence in the American novel, 1799-1861
Rituals of Diagnosis argues that nineteenth-century America’s literary representations of madness and its diagnosis respond to interdisciplinary efforts at cultivating a national psychology. Uniting theological and philosophical traditions with medical speculation, mental health reformers from Benja...
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| Format: | Others |
| Language: | en |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26048 |