Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) · AuthorAuthor
Henry Maudsley
1835-1918 · English psychiatrist and physician who wrote on mental disorder and heredity
About Henry Maudsley
Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) was an English physician, psychiatrist, and public intellectual whose writings linked mental disorder, heredity, degeneration, and social responsibility. He was associated with University College London and later endowed the Maudsley Hospital. His work helped naturalize mental life in Victorian medical and evolutionary language.
Notable works
- The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind (1867)
- Body and Mind (1870)
- Responsibility in Mental Disease (1874)
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Body and MindHenry Maudsley
1870 · 19th Century · Essays
Maudsley's Body and Mind argues that mental life cannot be separated from bodily organization, nervous function, heredity, and disease. Based on the Gulstonian Lectures, the book brings Victorian psychiatry, physiology, and evolutionary thought into one frame.