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History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology
. Ed(S): Wallace, Edwin; Gach, John
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Hardback. Psychiatry has always straddled the boundary between social and biological science. Here, interdisciplinary contributors trace psychiatry's evolution in its social, political, and philosophical contexts, charting its rise as a legitimate medical specialty. Editor(s): Wallace, Edwin; Gach, John. Num Pages: 862 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: MBX; MMH; MMJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1556.
Most of the prefatory issues are extensively elaborated upon in the Prolegomenon, which also contains the complete references to the texts and authors discussed below. Nevertheless, the “Preface” would be grossly incomplete without touching on some of these issues, books, and scholars. Too, many of this book’s chapters (e. g. , Mora’s, Marx’s, D. B. Weiner’s) examine and “reference” important earlier, as well as contemporary, general histories of psychiatry and specialized monographs; in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Also, in his 1968 Short History of Psychiatry, d- cussed below, Ackerknecht (pp. xi–xii) references important nineteenth and earlier-twentieth century psychiatric histories ... Read more
Most of the prefatory issues are extensively elaborated upon in the Prolegomenon, which also contains the complete references to the texts and authors discussed below. Nevertheless, the “Preface” would be grossly incomplete without touching on some of these issues, books, and scholars. Too, many of this book’s chapters (e. g. , Mora’s, Marx’s, D. B. Weiner’s) examine and “reference” important earlier, as well as contemporary, general histories of psychiatry and specialized monographs; in German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Also, in his 1968 Short History of Psychiatry, d- cussed below, Ackerknecht (pp. xi–xii) references important nineteenth and earlier-twentieth century psychiatric histories ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
862
Condition
New
Number of Pages
862
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387347073
SKU
V9780387347073
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About . Ed(S): Wallace, Edwin; Gach, John
Edwin Wallace IV, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor of Bioethics at the University of South Carolina. Until 1995 he was Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia. In 1984 he published Historiography and Causation in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press) and is generally regarded as an expert on ... Read more
Reviews for History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology
From the reviews: "The main audience for this new book is educators who want to be good scholars of intellectual history; the remaining readers are those who just want to deeply understand how present concepts of the mind were invented. This book, written ill a language of a high but approachable erudition, could serve as a knowledgeable guide ... Read more