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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1985

Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401088060

Full citation:

Gerlof Verwey, Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context, Berlin, Springer, 1985

Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context

Gerlof Verwey

Contents

Anthropological psychiatry in Germany during the first half of the nineteenth century

1-36

The mechanistic viewpoint in nineteenth-century philosophy and science (psychology and physiology)

37-85

W. Griesinger and the mechanicist conception of psychiatry (from about 1845 to about 1868)

86-155

Schopenhauer, Rokitansky and Lange

towards an explicit philosophical justification of German "materialism" (from about 1840)

156-200