Three hundred years of psychiatry 1535-1860. A history presented in selected English texts. Fine.
Publisher Information: London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Hunter, Richard Alfred (1923-1981) and Ida Macalpine (d. 1974). Three hundred years of psychiatry. 1535-1860. A history presented in selected English texts. xxvi [1] 1107 pp. Illustrations. (240 x 154 mm). Beige linen, embossed brown spine label with gilt lettering and floral motif. The spine has a small grey stain at the head, but still Fine. First Edition, First Printing.
Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981) was a British physician of German origin. He was president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1972-1973; Hunter was a psychiatrist, historian, and book collector. With his mother, Dr Ida Macalpine, also a psychiatrist, he wrote Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535 to 1860, [featured here] using title pages from books in his collection to illustrate this first full chronicle of British psychiatry. Each book is accompanied by an essay describing its place in medical and social history. It remains a unique and important source for the history and bibliography of psychiatry in Britain before 1860. (Wikipedia).
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