This Way Madness Lies
The Asylum and Beyond
$45.24
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2016
Summary
Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind or a sickness of the soul? This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home: the Royal Bethlem Hospital, London, popularly known as Bedlam. Organized chronologically, the book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the 18th-centu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500518977 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500518971 |
| Author: | Mike Jay |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 1.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 189mm x 287mm |
Critics Review
“This Way Madness Lies tells a colorful history, one rich in incident…The book’s wealth of artwork has been sumptuously reproduced.”
‘A fascinating tour d’horizon’ - Guardian
‘Fascinating and lavishly illustrated’ - Wall Street Journal
‘Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects’ - Will Self, The London Review of Books
‘Immaculately researched … essential reading’ - The Psychologist
Mike Jay
Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture. He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’, which he co-curated for the Wellcome Collection in London. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and a trustee of the Bethlem Art and History Collection.
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