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The invisible plague: the rise of mental illness from 1750 to the present
E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. Judy Miller
Year: 2003, c2001.
Publisher:  Rutgers University Press. 
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table of contents
[Frontispiece]
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
[Dedication]
Preface
Acknowledgments
[Epigraph]
Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Is the Epidemic Important?
Chapter 2: The Birth of Bedlam: Insanity Prior to 1700
[Intro]
"God's Minstrels"
"There the Men Are as Mad as He"
"A Rare Diversion"
Richard Napier of Buckinghamshire
Chapter 3: The "English Malady" Appears: England 1700-1800
[Intro]
"No Cure—No Money"
"Moody Madness Laughing Wild"
"The Uncertain Continuance of Reason"
"The Hideous Malady Which So Amazingly Prevails"
The King Is Mad, Long Live the King
Chapter 4: "The Clap of Tortured Hands": England 1800-1850
[Intro]
Insanity and the Romantic Writers
Insanity "Is Not an Increasing Malady"
A Madman's Manuscript
The Madness of Mrs. Rochester
Chapter 5: "A Mania for Madness": England, 1850-1890
[Intro]
The Psychiatric Establishment
"A Mania for Madness"
The Mad Hatter as Snark
"Bluebeard's Cupboard"
The Causes of Insanity
Chapter 6: "A Great and Progressive Evil": England, 1890-1990
[Intro]
The 1897 Special Report on the Alleged Increase of Insanity
A Temporary Solution
The Effects of War and Influenza
After World War II
Chapter 7: The Road to Grangegorman: Ireland, 1700-1990
[Intro]
"Melancholy Spectacles of Humanity"
and Its Aftermath
Increasing Numbers, Dead or Alive
"This Vast Brooding Evil"
Accumulation and Emigration
Insanity in Politics and Literature
Twentieth-Century Ireland
The Rediscovery of the Insanity Problem
Chapter 8: "A Constantly Increasing Multitude": Atlantic Canada, 1700-1990
[Intro]
New Brunswick
Rising Numbers
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland
"Apparently on the Increase"
Nova Scotia
"This Fearful Affliction"
"This Dread Malady Is Rapid Growing"
Chapter 9: "The Disease Whose Frequency Has Become Alarming": The United States, 1700-1840
[Intro]
Hospitals for the Insane
"The Father of the American Novel"
Increasing Concern
The Contrast between North and South
"The Madman Roams Far and Wide"
Chapter 10: An Apostle for Asylums: The United States, 1840-1860
[Intro]
"Raise Up the Fallen"
Dr. Cure-Awl
Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
"The Price Which We Pay for Civilization"
Immigrants and Poverty
Chapter 11: "A Very Startling Increase": The United States, 1860-1890
[Intro]
"The Craziest People in the World"
"Could It Be Madness?"
An Angry Woman and a Psychiatric Judas
Barbarians at the Psychiatric Gates
The 1880 and 1890 Censuses
Chapter 12: "The Apocalyptic Beast": The United States, 1890-1990
[Intro]
The Appeal of
Preventing Insanity
"The Versatility of Madness"
The Era of Deinstitutionalization
Chapter 13: Why Is the Epidemic Forgotten?: The Politicalization of Insanity
[Intro]
The Myth of Mental Illness
Social Control and Marxist Economics
Captains of Confinement
Chapter 14: Possible Causes of Epidemic Insanity
[Intro]
The Lumber Room Thesis
Accumulation and Aged Patients
Is It Genetic?
The Industrial Revolution and Urbanization
The Stockings Model of Insanity
Appendix A: What Is Insanity?
Appendix B: The Baseline Rate of Insanity
Appendix C: Tables of Insanity Rates
Notes
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Birth of Bedlam
3. The "English Malady" Appears
4. "The Clap of Tortured Hands"
5. "A Mania for Madness"
6. "A Great and Progressive Evil"
7. The Road to Grangegorman
8. "A Constantly Increasing Multitude"
9. "The Disease Whose Frequency Has Become Alarming"
10. An Apostle for Asylums
11. "A Very Startling Increase"
12. "The Apocalyptic Beast"
13. Why Is the Epidemic Forgotten?
14. Possible Causes of Epidemic Insanity
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Selected References
Books, Papers, and Theses
Additional Websites of General Interest
United Kingdom
United States
Index
A-G
H-M
N-Y
About the Authors
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Title: The invisible plague : the rise of mental illness from 1750 to the present E. Fuller Torrey, Judy Miller.
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Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003, c2001.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90002
Subject Headings: • Psychiatric epidemiology
• Mental illness -- History -- 18th century
• Mental illness -- History -- 20th century
• Mental illness -- History -- 19th century
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