Greg Eghigian: Introduction to the history of madness and mental health Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert: Part I. Madness in the ancient and medieval worlds -- Representations of madmen and madness in Jewish sources from the pre-exilic to the Roman-Byzantine period Chiara Thumiger: Ancient Greek and Roman traditions Claire Trenery and Peregrine Horden: Madness in the Middle Ages Elizabeth Mellyn: Part II. Professions, institutions, and tools -- Healers and healing in the early modern health care market Andrew Scull: The asylum, hospital, and clinic German E. Berrios and Ivana S. Marková: The epistemology and classification of 'madness' since the eighteenth century Rhodri Hayward: Part III. Beyond medicine -- Psychiatry and religion Ilya Vinitsky: Madness in western literature and the arts Andreas Killen: Psychiatry and its visual culture in the modern era Manuella Meyer: Part IV. Global dimensions, colonial and post-colonial settings -- Madness and psychiatry in Latin America's long nineteenth century Waltraud Ernst: Histories of madness in South Asia Akihito Suzuki: Voices of madness in Japan : narrative devices at the psychiatric bedside and in modern literature Benoît Majerus: Part V. Perspectives and experiences -- The straightjacket, the bed, and the pill : material culture and madness Geoffrey Reaume: From the perspectives of mad people Jesse Ballenger: Dementia : confusion at the borderlands of aging and madness Laura Hirshbein: Part VI. Maladies, disorders, and treatments -- Passions and moods Jonathan Sadowsky: Somatic threatments Sonu Shamdasani: Psychotherapy in society : historical reflections Toine Pieters: The antidepressant era revisited : towards differentiation and patient-empowerment in diagnosis and treatment |
