Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914
Author:   Mary Chapman
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031970917


Pages:   217
Publication Date:   26 August 2025
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Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914


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Author:   Mary Chapman
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031970917


ISBN 10:   3031970918
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   26 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

.- Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding the Nineteenth-Century Mind Sciences in their Scientific and Cultural Context.- Chapter 2 The Case of the Madwoman: The Pedagogic Role of Psychiatric Textbooks and the Clinical Presentation of Female Insanity.- Chapter 3 The Female Mind in the Periodical Press: Henry Maudsley and the Sociological Application of Gendered Psychiatric Theory.- Chapter 4 Within the Asylum: Patient Perspectives and Gendered Experience in the Crichton Royal Institution.- Chapter 5 Making a Name for Herself: Helen Boyle’s Work as a Female Pioneer in Mental Health Care.- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Interventions in the Historiography of Victorian Psychiatry.

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Mary Chapman is the William Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK. She previously held the Alan F Price Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Liverpool (2023-24), and the WRoCAH Engagement Fellowship at the University of York (2023). She completed a PhD in nineteenth-century literature and the history of medicine at the University of Leeds (2021). She is interested in how writing shaped the development of medical practice during this period and her work centres on women in medicine, as both practitioners and patients.

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