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"Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, it is also socially constructed, culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material, this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotion

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Author

Mary De Young

Publisher

McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786457465

Category

social science

Subjects

Medical, History, Psychology

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-25