In the Age of Revolutions, what's changing in The West’s view of madness? 

Edit: Pinel did not literally throw off the chains at his asylum, this was propaganda cooked up several decades after the revolution. Reality was much more boring.

Book Recommendation:

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Bibliography: 

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.

Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present , New York: Broadway Books 2008

Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: “Overcivilization” and the “Savage” Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology” American Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2000): 246–73. 

Fett, Sharla M. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. 1st ed. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

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Madness in the Early Modern Era and Enlightenment.

Book Recommendations:

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

Bibliography: 

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Nachdr. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Peterson, Dale, ed. A Mad People’s History of Madness. Contemporary Community Health Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.

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How did people in the medieval era view madness?

Book Recommendations:

A Brief History by Roy Porter

Bibliography: 

Bartholomew, Robert E. Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2001.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. New York: Autonomedia, 2004.

Medievalists.net. “Manifestations of Psychiatric Illness in Texts from the Medieval and Viking Era.” Medievalists.Net (blog), October 27, 2015. https://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/manifestations-of-psychiatric-illness-in-texts-from-the-medieval-and-viking-era/.

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Nachdr. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Peterson, Dale, ed. A Mad People’s History of Madness. Contemporary Community Health Series. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.

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Instagram: @bedlambookclub

Email: [email protected]

A discussion of medicine, science, and madness in classical Egypt and Greece.

"Book" Recommendation:

Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science #1, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvtCLceNf30.

Bibliography: 

“Ebers Papyrus,” February 26, 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050226100008/http://www.macalester.edu/~cuffel/ebers.htm.

The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epCOGAa7tRQ.

Plato and Aristotle: Crash Course History of Science #3, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh0fxJkvL44.

Magner, Lois N. A History of Medicine. New York: M. Dekker, 1992.

Nasser, Mervat. “Psychiatry in Ancient Egypt.” Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 11, no. 12 (1987): 420–22. doi:10.1192/pb.11.12.420.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

Porter, Roy. A Social History of Madness. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987.

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CORRECTIONS:

I misspoke when I said the order of the Socratics. The actual order was Socrates who taught Plato, who taught Aristotle.

Gather round as we introduce ourselves, talk about terminology, and briefly explore the prehistory of madness.

Book recommendations: 

Graeber, David, and D. Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. First American edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Scull, Andrew. Madness: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions 279. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bibliography: 

Graeber, David, and D. Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. First American edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

The Unexpected Origins of the Word ‘Monster’ (Feat. Dr. Z) | Otherwords.

(edit) Bonus article: Curry, Andrew. “Ancient Bones Offer Clues To How Long Ago Humans Cared For The Vulnerable.” NPR, June 17, 2020, sec. Goats and Soda. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/17/878896381/ancient-bones-offer-clues-to-how-long-ago-humans-cared-for-the-vulnerable.

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