Pellagra and Pellagrous Insanity During the Long Nineteenth Century
This open access book explores the history of pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease brought about by a shift in agriculture to maize, which ravaged Italy from the 1760s. With a focus on the insanity that was caused by the disease, the authors examine how thousands of patients were treated in Italia...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Rough Skin: An Introduction
- Part I. Pellagra
- 2. Medical Reactions to a New Disease in the Eighteenth Century
- 3. The Aetiological Turn in the Nineteenth Century
- 4.The Bacteriological Divide: Pellagra in Italy and the United States during the Twentieth Century
- Interlude: Patient Voices
- Part II. Pellagrous Insanity
- 5. Institutionalising Pellagrous Insanity
- 6. Understanding Insanity: Pellagra and General Paralysis of the Insane in Italy and the United Kingdom
- 7. Experiencing the Asylum
- 8. Conclusion: Leaving the Asylum