Madness and Enterprise

197,00 lei
La comandă
197.00
This product has not been ordered yet

Personalize product

Add the product in basket to personalize it

Local courier shipping
2 - 4 days
$16.50
UPS ground shipping
4 - 6 days
$19.00
Local pickup from store
$0.00
Product thumb
Madness and Enterprise
197,00 lei

Categorii: Diverse, Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2024

Editura: The University of Chicago Press

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 352

ISBN: 9780226830896

Dimensiuni: l: 15.2cm | H: 22.9cm | 454g

Product thumb
Madness and Enterprise
197,00 lei

Descriere

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient’s economic productivity.


Madness and Enterprise
reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person’s mental state.

Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation―moral value, medical value, and economic value―were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed―and even revered.
Filters Wishlist Menu 4 $265.00
Top