Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / / Heather H. Vacek
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| Autore: |
Vacek Heather H. <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Madness : American Protestant reactions to mental illness across three centuries / / Heather H. Vacek
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| Pubblicazione: | Waco, Texas : , : Baylor University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 261.8/3220973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mental illness - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Protestantism - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Making theological sense out of suffering, sin, and sickness / Cotton Mather -- Christian vocation and the shape the secular profession / Benjamin Rush -- Advocating for the helpless, forgotten, and insane / Dorothea Dix -- Reclaiming religious authority in medicine / Anton Boisen -- A passionate plea to engage finds lukewarm reaction / Karl Menninger. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A history of Protestant responses to mental illness from the colonial era to the present |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Madness |
| ISBN: | 1-4813-0450-X |
| 1-4813-0059-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826169903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in Religion, Theology, and Disability