In 1840, a French alienist, or psychiatrist, Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans, visited a number of Italian asylums with the objective of discovering the best solution for the institute he was planning to set up in the vicinity of Bordeaux. This book comprises an Italian translation of the notes he made on this trip, conserved in a manuscript in the library of the former psychiatric hospital of San Salvi (Florence). Offering an extremely precise and detailed review of the structures visited, the work is a fascinating and important source for the reconstruction of the history of the institutes for the insane in Italy and also for the history of psychiatry itself.
University of Florence, Italy
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-2388-5545
Book Title
Joseph Guillaume Desmaisons Dupallans
Book Subtitle
La Francia alla ricerca del modello e l'Italia dei manicomi nel 1840
Editors
Pier Luigi Cabras, Silvia Chiti, Donatella Lippi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
198
Publication Year
2006
Copyright Information
© 2006 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
ISBN Print
88-8453-474-7
eISBN (pdf)
88-8453-473-9
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-935-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919