What is madness? -- The experience of madness -- Distracted in the colonies -- Asylums -- Asylum patients -- Asylum therapeutics
Summary
"This book exercises the sociological imagination to explore some questions in the history of madness, including why some behaviors are labeled mad; why they are labeled mad in one historical period and not another; why the label of mad is applied to some types of people; and by whom the label and its consequences are applied"--Provided by publisher