Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution

Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution

Autore: Sarah L. Swedberg
Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
Edizione: 1
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
ISBN: 9781498573863

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In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with American society, law, and politics during the early American Republic. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance. Revolutionaries built the American government based on rational principles, but could not protect it from irrational actors that they feared could cause the body politic to grow mentally or physically ill. This book is recommended for students and scholars of history, political science, legal studies, sociology, literature, psychology, and public health.

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