Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors & Lunatics

by Roy Porter

Book Overview

What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the century--Shelley's "old, mad, blind, despised king" George III--treated before his final descent into insanity in 1808? The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savage practices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by manias, ranging from huge doses of opium, blood-letting,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752419722
• ISBN13: 9780752419725
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"