![]() ![]() They have created a source book and authoritative guide to this complex and hitherto neglected field, and by their commentaries which accompany the extracts have woven its many facets into a connected story. Since the rise of psychiatry is closely linked with medical and social history and the humanities, the authors have combed the writings of medical men, physiologists and psychologists, of divines, jurists, men of letters, philanthropists, philosophers, even self-accounts of patients, the Statutes of the Realm and reports of Parliamentary Committees. It is presented in readings selected from original sources covering an unprecedented range of material both printed (including American books and contemporary translations of foreign works) and manuscript from public and private archives. From the blurb: "This is the first fully documented chronicle of British psychiatry from its beginnings until it had grown into an established branch of medicine. A collection of extracts from original sources, arranged chronologically. ![]()
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