Author: Midelfort, H.C. Erik
Title: A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi, 438 pp, A faint removed-label mark to rear cover.. Textual illustrations. Some binding stains. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Historical Problems: Sin, St. Vitus, & the Devil; Two Reformers & a World Gone Mad: Luther & Paracelsus; Academic " Psychiatry" and the Rise of Galenic Observation; Witchcraft & the Melancholy Interpretation of the Insanity Defense; Court Fools & Their Folly: Image & Social Reality; Pilgrims in Search of Their Reason; Madness as Helplessness: Two Hospitals in the Age of the Reformations; Epilogue.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Mental Illness, Social Psychiatry, Germany, Historical, Sociology, German Medical, Psychiatric, Mad Madness