Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness Tapa dura - 2015
de Heather H. Vacek
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In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the history of Protestant reactions to mental illness in America. She reveals how two distinct forces combined to thwart Christian care for the whole person. The professionalization of medicine worked to restrict the sphere of Christian authority to the private and spiritual realms, consigning healing and care--both physical and mental--to secular, medical specialists. Equally influential, a theological legacy that linked illness with sin deepened the social stigma surrounding the mentally ill. The Protestant church, reluctant to engage sufferers lest it, too, be tainted by association, willingly abdicated care for the mentally ill to secular professionals.
While inattention formed the general rule, five historical exceptions to the pattern of benign neglect exemplify Protestant efforts to claim a distinctly Christian response. A close examination of the lives and work of colonial clergyman Cotton Mather, Revolutionary era physician Benjamin Rush, nineteenth-century activist Dorothea Dix, pastor and patient Anton Boisen, and psychiatrist Karl Menninger maps both the range and the progression of attentive Protestant care.
By demonstrating the gravity of what appeared--and failed to appear--on clerical and congregational agendas, Vacek explores how Christians should navigate the ever-shifting lines of cultural authority as they care for those who suffer.
Detalles
- Título Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness
- Autor Heather H. Vacek
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 283
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2015
- ISBN 9781481300575 / 1481300571
- Peso 1.3 libras (0.59 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 pulgadas (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mental illness - Religious aspects -, Protestantism - United States - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2014048047
- Dewey Decimal Code 261.832
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