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Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain, c. 1770-1820 by Mark Neuendorf is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Neuendorf
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783030843557
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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