What role did science play in defining mental illness and acceptable treatment of mentally ill patients? What is the relationship between scientific conceptions of modernity and health and mental illness? How did treatments of mental illness change over time, and how did these treatments reshape society? What is the relationship between state power and new forms of medical “treatment”?

What role did science play in defining mental illness and acceptable treatment of mentally ill patients? What is the relationship between scientific conceptions of modernity and health and mental illness? How did treatments of mental illness change over time, and how did these treatments reshape society? What is the relationship between state power and new forms of medical “treatment”?