Occult genres and the certification of madness in a 19th-century lunatic asylum

Written Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-250

  Berkenkotter, Carol ^a   Hanganu Bresch, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

admissions records; asylum patients; confinement; generic uptake; genre; medical certification; speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954468769     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088311401557     Document Type: Article

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