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024 7 _a10.1093/oso/9780198873006.001.0001
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082 0 4 _a200.9034
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100 1 _aDavies, Owen,
_d1969-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aTroubled by faith :
_binsanity and the supernatural in the age of the asylum /
_cOwen Davies.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2023.
300 _a1 online resource :
_billustrations (black and white, and colour).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOxford scholarship online
500 _aAlso issued in print: 2023.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 _aBy exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. 'Troubled by Faith' explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2023).
650 0 _aPsychiatry and religion
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aBelief and doubt
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 7 _aReligion.
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650 7 _aReligion & beliefs.
_2thema
776 0 8 _iPrint version :
_z9780198873006
830 0 _aOxford scholarship online.
856 4 0 _3Oxford Academic
_uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198873006.001.0001
975 _aOxford scholarship online 2024
999 _c87793
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