Mystical Bedlam. Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England, Paperback

Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Michael (University of Wisconsin, Madison) MacDonald
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 344
• Collection: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Publication date: 1983
• Dimensions: 236 x 172 x 22
• Cover type: Paperback / softback