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Published on: February 17, 2011
James Cowles Prichard, an early Victorian psychiatrist
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Abstract:
James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life in Science During the Age of Improvement traces Prichard's contributions to the development of psychiatric theory and the psychiatric profession. It also explores his broader range of scientific interests clearly set in cultural and personal context. Armed with his Edinburgh MD, he published innovative anthropological textbooks demonstrating the unity and single origin of the human species. As physician to Bristol's workhouse/lunatic asylum, he studied his captive patients' neurological and psychiatric conditions, avidly collected case histories, gathered medical statistics widely and mined Continental psychiatric literature to publish influential works on neurology and psychological medicine, notably formulating the condition called moral insanity. Appointed to the Lunacy Commission, he published a manual of psychiatric jurisprudence and participated in the development of asylumdom.
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