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- Provides the first in-depth study of the history of Hungarian psychiatry within a wider European context
- Charts the professionalization of psychiatry and shows how psychiatry’s focus expanded
- Contributes to cultural and social studies of fin-de-siècle modernity in Central Europe
Part of the book series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective (MHHP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Emese Lafferton
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century
Authors: Emese Lafferton
Series Title: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85706-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85705-9Published: 30 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85708-0Published: 30 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85706-6Published: 29 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6036
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6044
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 441
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social History, Psychiatry