Mind, Modernity, Madness

The Impact of Culture on Human Experience

Liah Greenfeld

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$60.00 • £52.95 • €54.95

ISBN 9780674072763

Publication Date: 04/08/2013

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688 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Philosophical
- 1. Premises
- 2. The Mind as an Emergent Phenomenon
II. Psychological
- 3. Madness in Its Pure Form: Schizophrenia
- 4. Madness Muddled: Manic-Depressive Illness
III. Historical
- 5. The Cradle of Madness
- 6. Going International: The Spread of Madness in Europe
- 7. Madder Than Them All: From the Records of American Insanity
Afterword
Notes
Index

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