Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature (Corporealities

Author: Allen Thiher
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0472089994

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. . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety and verve."
---Louis Sass, author of Madness and Modernism

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