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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMellyn, Elizabeth W.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMad Tuscans and Their Families :
_bA History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy /
_cElizabeth W. Mellyn.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (304 p.) :
_b8 illus.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tA note on dates and money --
_tIntroduction. The Tales Madness Tells --
_tChapter 1. Incapacity, Guardianship, and the Tuscan Family --
_tChapter 2. "Madness Is Punishment Enough" --
_tChapter 3. Spending Without Measure --
_tChapter 4. From Madness to Sickness --
_tChapter 5. The Curious Case of Forensic Medicine --
_tConclusion --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aBased on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households and streets. In some of these cases, solutions were protective and palliative; in others, they were predatory or abusive. The goals of families were sometimes at odds with those of the courts, but for the most part families and judges worked together to order households and communities in ways that served public and private interests.For most of the period Mellyn examines, Tuscan communities had no institutions devoted solely to the treatment and protection of the mentally disturbed; responsibility for their long-term care fell to the family. By the end of the seventeenth century, Tuscans, like other Europeans, had come to explain madness in medical terms and the mentally disordered were beginning to move from households to hospitals. In Mad Tuscans and Their Families, Mellyn argues against the commonly held belief that these changes chart the rise of mechanisms of social control by emerging absolutist states. Rather, the story of mental illness is one of false starts, expedients, compromise, and consensus created by a wide range of historical actors.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCaregivers
_xFamily relationships
_zItaly
_zTuscany
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMental health laws
_zItaly
_zTuscany
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMental illness
_zItaly
_zTuscany
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_xMedical care
_zItaly
_zTuscany
_xHistory.
650 4 _aHealth.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Italy.
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653 _aCaregiving.
653 _aHealth.
653 _aHistory.
653 _aMedicine.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209815
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