Occult Genres and the Certification of Madness in a 19th-Century Lunatic Asylum

Autor/inn/en	Berkenkotter, Carol; Hanganu-Bresch, Cristina
Titel	Occult Genres and the Certification of Madness in a 19th-Century Lunatic Asylum
Quelle	In: Written Communication, 28 (2011) 2, S.220-250 (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-0883
DOI	10.1177/0741088311401557
Schlagwörter	Psychiatry; Patients; Certification; Archives; Foreign Countries; Psychiatric Hospitals; Persuasive Discourse; Role; History; Literary Genres; Health; Rhetoric; Medical Evaluation; Case Records; Written Language; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychiatrie; Patient; Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Archivwesen; Archiv; Ausland; Phsychiatric institution; Psychiatrische Einrichtung; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Rollen; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Literarische Form; Gesundheit; Rhetorik; Case reports; Fallsammlung; Geschriebene Sprache; Großbritannien
Abstract	Using archival admissions records and case histories of patients at a British asylum from the 1860s to the 1870s, the authors examine the medical certification process leading to the asylum confinement of individuals judged to be "of unsound mind." These institutional texts are, the authors suggest, "occult genres" that function as complex acts of argumentation, whose illocutionary force depends on the success of their felicity conditions. Through the lens of Austin's concept of "uptake," the authors analyze the role of medical certification in the admissions history of two patients at Ticehurst House Asylum in the 1860s-1870s. The authors contend that historical genre analysis plays an important role in the rhetoric of medicine and health, shedding light on the performative power of medical certification, an act essential to the practice of psychiatry. (Contains 5 figures and 17 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10