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9780195140521
Drawing on the case records of several hundred asylum patients, this book reconstructs the encounters of state officials and medical practitioners with peasant madness and deviancy during a transitional period in the history of Germany and psychiatry.Goldberg, Ann is the author of 'Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness The Eberbach Asylum and German Society, 1815-1849' with ISBN 9780195140521 and ISBN 0195140524.
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