Table of Contents
- Frontmatter (page N/A)
- List of illustrations (page x)
- Acknowledgments (page xi)
- List of abbreviations (page xiii)
- Introduction (page 1)
- 1 "Profession" in context (page 8)
- 2 Toward psychiatry (page 41)
- 3 The transformation of charlatanism, or the moral treatment (page 64)
- 4 The politics of patronage (page 120)
- 5 Monomania (page 152)
- 6 Religious roots and rivals (page 197)
- 7 Choosing philosophical sides (page 240)
- 8 The Law of 1838 and the asylum system (page 276)
- 9 Hysteria, anticlerical politics, and the view beyond the asylum (page 322)
- Conclusion (page 378)
- Appendix (page 385)
- Bibliographical note (page 391)
- Index (page 398)