This Way Madness Lies by Mike Jay
Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.
'A fascinating tour d’horizon' - Guardian
'Fascinating and lavishly illustrated' - Wall Street Journal
'Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects' - Will Self, The London Review of Books
'Immaculately researched … essential reading' - The Psychologist
'Fascinating and lavishly illustrated' - Wall Street Journal
'Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects' - Will Self, The London Review of Books
'Immaculately researched … essential reading' - The Psychologist
Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture. He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', which he co-curated for the Wellcome Collection in London. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and a trustee of the Bethlem Art and History Collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500518977 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500518971 |
| Title | This Way Madness Lies |
| Author | Mike Jay |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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