The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health- Front Cover -- The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction to the history of madness and mental health -- PART I: Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds -- Chapter 1: Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period -- Madness in the Hebrew Bible -- Late antiquity: Halacha and Aggada -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Ancient Greek and Roman traditions -- "Madness" in the Graeco-Roman world -- The Greeks and the irrational -- Legal and social aspects -- Ancient medical ideas -- Fifth and early fourth-century medical authors: the authors of the Hippocratic Corpus -- The first psychiatric taxonomy of antiquity: Cornelius Celsus -- The philosophers and mental wellbeing -- Galen -- Later nosology and encyclopedias -- Notes -- Texts used -- Chapter 3: Madness in the Middle Ages -- Introduction -- The aetiology of madness -- Provision for the mad -- Literature and art -- Notorious madmen and madwomen -- Beyond the Christian West: Byzantium and Islam -- Conclusions -- Notes -- PART II: Professions, institutions, and tools -- Chapter 4: Healers and healing in the early modern health care market -- At home with madness -- Madness in the market for health care -- Spiritual physic -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The asylum, hospital, and clinic -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century -- Introduction -- Issues historiographical -- Defining terms -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- The twenty-first century -- Notes -- PART III: Beyond medicine -- Chapter 7: Psychiatry and religion -- Psychiatry and the policing of spiritual experience