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  • Madness in Civilization

    A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go—these are some of the traits we associate with madness. Today, mental disturbance is most commonly viewed through a medical lens, but societies have also ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Desperate Remedies

    Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

    by Andrew Scull ...
    A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable WorkA Times Book of the YearA Hughes Award Finalist“An indisputable masterpiece…comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.”—Wall Street Journal“Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting f... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Madness

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole industry has grown up, devoted to its management and suppression. Madness profoundly disturbs our ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hysteria: The Biography

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Grappling with Mental Illness

    Psychiatry and the Social Sciences

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Disciplines and Discontinuities

    $21.59 USD

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  • Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

    The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

    Edited by Andrew Scull ...
    The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Asylum as Utopia

    W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry

    Edited by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Psychology Revivals
    What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and ideologically resonant description of the contrasting virtues of the reformed asylum, a hive of therapeutic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Psychiatry and Its Discontents

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm's decline with the ascendance of biological and pharmaceutical ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

    The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

    Edited by Andrew Scull ...
    The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness

    An A-to-Z Guide

    Edited by Andrew Scull ...
    Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A to Z Guide looks at recent reports that suggest an astonishing rise in mental illness and considers such questions as: Are there truly more mentally ill people now or are there just more people being diagnosed and treated? What are the roles of economics and the pharmacological industry in this controversy? At the core of what is going on with mental ... Read more

    $323.99 USD

  • The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

    Essays on the History of Psychiatry

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half.Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter.Chapters on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Order/Mental Disorder

    Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
    Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD