150 years of British psychiatry 1841–1991
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the kind of serious and sustained scholarly apparatus that makes Hunter and MacAlpine's Three hundred years of psychiatry such an extraordinary accomplishment and a continuing source of pleasure and insight over the years. Rather, the intent seems to be to bring together a number of sometimes touching, sometimes disturbing, sometimes amusing vignettes for the casual reader, a book to be dipped into and sampled, rather than a volume one might treat as an important scholarly resource or something one might want to read through in any systematic fashion. Porter is an extraordinarily industrious, indeed apparently indefatigable historian with a broad knowledge of the territory he is here attempting to survey. Though certain sources are mined perhaps a trifle too frequently, overall he has chosen wisely and well, mixing the familiar and the obscure in judicious proportions. Provided one does not expect much more than this, The Faber book ofmadness can be recommended as a modestly useful compilation, of interest primarily to a non-specialist audience.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993