Title Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany : a history of psychiatric practice / Eric J. Engstrom.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 295 pages).
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Series	Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
	Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-289) and index.
Contents	The topography of mid-nineteenth-century psychiatry -- Wilhelm Griesinger's reform program : the politics of the urban Asylum -- Laboratory science : psychiatric research in the 1870s and 1880s -- Bedside science : clinical research in Heidelberg -- Clinical teaching -- Social prophylaxis : psychiatric polyclinics -- Conclusion : clinical psychiatry and the politics of professional practice.
Summary	"The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom investigates the history of university psychiatric clinics in imperial Germany from 1867 to 1914, emphasizing the clinical practices and professional debates surrounding the development of these institutions and their impact on the course of German psychiatry."--Jacket.
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Subject	BMBF-Statusseminar.
	Psychiatry -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
	Psychiatry.
	Germany.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Mental illness -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
	Mental illness.
	Germany.
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Engstrom, Eric J. Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany. First edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003 0801441951 (DLC) 2003019788 (OCoLC)53014061
ISBN	9781501723940 (electronic book)
	1501723944 (electronic book)
	0801441951
	9780801441950

Title Clinical psychiatry in imperial Germany : a history of psychiatric practice / Eric J. Engstrom.

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