The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry / Andrew Scull.

Author
Scull, Andrew, 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description
vi, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Routledge studies in cultural history ; 2 [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index.
    Contents
    • Musings about madness
    • The insanity of place
    • A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians
    • Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry
    • The mad-doctor and his craft
    • Museums of madness revisited
    • Blinded by biology
    • "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America
    • Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    • Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian
    • "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies
    • Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).
    ISBN
    0415770068 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2005019720
    OCLC
    60856177
    International Article Number
    • 9780415770064
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