Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations

H. C. Erik Midelfort

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Midelfort, H. C. Erik. "Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations". A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany, Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 322-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617476-012

Midelfort, H. (2000). Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations. In A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (pp. 322-384). Redwood City: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617476-012

Midelfort, H. 2000. Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations. A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, pp. 322-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617476-012

Midelfort, H. C. Erik. "Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations" In A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany, 322-384. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617476-012

Midelfort H. Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations. In: A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Redwood City: Stanford University Press; 2000. p.322-384. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503617476-012

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Frontmatter i
Acknowledgments vii
Contents xi
Tables and Maps xii
Illustrations xiv
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
CHAPTER ONE Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil 25
CHAPTER TWO Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus 80
CHAPTER THREE Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation 140
CHAPTER FOUR Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense 182
CHAPTER FIVE Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality 228
CHAPTER SIX Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason 277
Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations 322
Epilogue 385
Bibliography 391
Index 427

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Acknowledgments vii
Contents xi
Tables and Maps xii
Illustrations xiv
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
CHAPTER ONE Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, and the Devil 25
CHAPTER TWO Two Reformers and a World Gone Mad: Luther and Paracelsus 80
CHAPTER THREE Academic "Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation 140
CHAPTER FOUR Witchcraft and the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense 182
CHAPTER FIVE Court Fools and Their Folly: Image and Social Reality 228
CHAPTER SIX Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason 277
Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations 322
Epilogue 385
Bibliography 391
Index 427

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