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Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of

Description: Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient's economic productivity. Madness and Enterprise reveals the economic norms embedded within psychiatric thinking about mental illness in the North Atlantic world. Over the course of the nineteenth century, various forms of madness were subjected to a style of psychiatric reasoning that was preoccupied with money. Psychiatrists across Western Europe and the United States attributed financial and even moral value to an array of pathological conditions, such that some mental disorders were seen as financial assets and others as economic liabilities. By turning to economic conduct and asking whether potential patients appeared capable of managing their financial affairs or even generating wealth, psychiatrists could often bypass diagnostic uncertainties about a person's mental state. Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of psychiatry and economic thought, Nima Bassiri shows how this relationship transformed the very idea of value in the modern North Atlantic, as the most common forms of social valuation—moral value, medical value, and economic value—were rendered equivalent and interchangeable. If what was good and what was healthy were increasingly conflated with what was remunerative (and vice versa), then a conceptual space opened through which madness itself could be converted into an economic form and subsequently redeemed—and even revered.

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EAN: 9780226830896

UPC: 9780226830896

ISBN: 9780226830896

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Format: Paperback, 352 pages

Author: Nima Bassiri

Book Title: Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reaso

Item Height: 2.3 cm

Item Length: 22.9 cm

Item Weight: 0.31 kg

Item Width: 15.2 cm

Language: Eng

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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