Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"This book, based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a clergyman working in the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, describes various mental diseases and their treatments. Topics discussed include the following: insanity and its treatment among the ancients; the insane during the early Christian centuries; the first hospitals and asylums for the insane and their character; curious superstitions and strange methods of treating the insane; the beginnings of reform and improvement; the modern asylum; guarantees for the safety and proper care of the insane in asylums; treatment of the insane outside of asylums; opinions and feelings of patients; schools and insanity; religion and insanity; alcohol and insanity; tobacco and other narcotics and insanity; inherited tendencies and insanity; and insanity and crime." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Mental illness. --- Mental disorders.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The Equal Society collects fourteen new scholarly essays by established and emerging researchers on the topic of equality-including new work by Ann E. Cudd, Miranda Fricker, Charles W. Mills and Jonathan Wolff. The authors address political, legal and ethical aspects of their subject, and provide fresh perspectives on themes prominent in current social and political philosophy, including relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities approach, African ethics, gender equality and the philosophy of race.

Equality. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Equality --- #SBIB:17H20 --- #SBIB:17H3 --- #SBIB:316.8H00 --- Sociale wijsbegeerte: algemeen --- Politieke wijsbegeerte --- Sociaal beleid: algemeen