Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Medicine and Society) (Volume 8)
by Joel Braslow
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures examines psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the relationship between mental illness, bodily cures, and medical practice, this volume places the history of psychiatry within the broader social context of medicine and its changing approaches to treatment.
About This Book
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures examines psychiatric treatment during the first half of the twentieth century.
The book considers approaches to mental illness alongside efforts to address the body, highlighting the relationship between psychiatric care and physical treatment.
As part of the Medicine and Society series, it explores medical practice in its wider social and historical context.
This volume offers readers an informed study of psychiatry, bodily cures, and the development of treatment during a formative period in modern medicine.
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