Titlebook: Mediating Madness; Mental Distress and Simon Cross Book 2010 Simon Cross 2010 contemporary media.media.Nation

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Illustrations of Madness: Seeing and Reading Historical Images of Insanity,is not available from other positions and approaches? Is it not the case that any delving into the past is simply a distraction from analysing and assessing contemporary media representations of madness? Surely it is only those representations that should command our attention.

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Bedlam in Mind: Campaigning Journalists and Insane Conditions,y reform movement that swept Europe and North America in the first half of the nineteenth century, the asylum is now a monument to a failed policy of segregating the insane. In Great Britain, for example, scientific optimism that the asylum would yield new treatments for insanity gave way to public

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Visualising Madness: Mental Distress and Public Representation,ionship between madness and culture that has deep historical roots: ‘Ever since Antiquity, the theories of physiognomy, humours and complexions developed by Greek medicine fed the assumption that madness was as madness looked. Melancholics would be passive, listless, withdrawn, broadcasting the “bla

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Speaking of Voices: Mediating Talk about Mental Distress,nmates was entrusted to successive generations of the Monro family. Like many practitioners of the ‘mad-doctoring trade’ at that time, they combined their public duties with lucrative private practices ministering to the better-off. In 1766, John Monro kept a notebook of his work with paying patient

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Concluding Remarks,ertake a journey, reading the chapters to understand how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. When writing about the interplay between historical and contemporary images and representations of madness, I found that there is no neat processi

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Book 2010Mediating Madness examines how mediations of madness emerge, disappear and interleave, only to re-emerge at unexpected moments. Drawing on social and cultural histories of madness, history of art, and popular journalism, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary media representations of madness.