History of the case study Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

• Main Authors: Lang, Birgit, Damousi, Joy, Lewis, Alison
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2017
• Subjects: Alfred Döblin; Case method > History; Case study; Historiography; History; History and Archaeology; Humanities > Case studies > History; Knowledge, Sociology of; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch; Literature; Methodology; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis > Case studies; Richard von Krafft-Ebing; Sadomasochism; Sexology; Sexology > Case studies; Sigmund Freud; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sociology > Case studies > History; World history

This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Centra...