Madness in Civilization : A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
by
Andrew Scull
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0500295638
ISBN-13
9780500295632
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2020
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
418 grams
Dimensions
17.40 x 42.00 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyHistory of medicineSocial and cultural history
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‘A brilliant cultural history … Scull’s book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read … outstanding’ The Times
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our attempts to understand and treat it.
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