Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value by Nima Bassiri
Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value

Nima Bassiri

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

Nima Bassiri

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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 wi...

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