{"product_id":"victorian-lunacy-richard-m-bucke-and-the-practice-of-late-nineteenth-century-psychiatry-9780521172820","title":"Victorian Lunacy: Richard M. Bucke and the Practice of Late Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shortt Samuel Edward Dole | Samuel Edward Dole Shortt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychopathology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing the career of Richard M. Bucke at the London Asylum in Canada as its focus, this 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. The study describes the medical context that nurtured Victorian alienists, while their professional sphere - the asylum - is considered as an autonomous social community, often at odds with the intentions of its ostensible masters. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike many other studies of nineteenth-century psychiatry, this book does not restrict itself to a single national experience, but adopts an explicitly Anglo-American perspective. Rather than restricting attention to political or institutional factors, it accords major significance to the role of ideas in determining the character of late Victorian psychiatry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46868956053655,"sku":"9780521172820","price":5101.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521172820.webp?v=1769991746","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/victorian-lunacy-richard-m-bucke-and-the-practice-of-late-nineteenth-century-psychiatry-9780521172820","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}