TY  - GEN
N2  - "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 book exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period.
AB  - "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 book exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the most perplexing questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors, thoughts and emotions are labeled mad while others are not; why they are labeled mad in one historical period.
T1  - Madnessan American history of mental illness and its treatment /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - Jefferson, N.C. :
AU  - De Young, Mary,
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - RC443
PB  - McFarland & Co.,
PP  - Jefferson, N.C. :
PY  - c2010.
ID  - 438299
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Mental illness
SN  - 9780786457465 (electronic bk.)
TI  - Madnessan American history of mental illness and its treatment /
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