The insanity of place / the place of insanity: essays on the history of psychiatry
By: Scull, Andrew
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Central Library General Stack (Sahyadri Campus) | 616.89 SCU/I | Checked out | 28/07/2025 | 08895 | |
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Central Library Reference (Sahyadri Campus) | Reference | 616.89 SCU/I | Not for loan | 08894 |
1. Musings about Madness
2. The Insanity of Place
3. A Failure to Communicate? On the Reception of Foucault’s Histoire de la Folie by Anglo-American Historians
4. Madmen and their Keepers: Roy Porter and the History of Psychiatry
5. The Mad-Doctor and his Craft
6. Museums of Madness Revisited
7. Blinded by Biology
8. "Nobody’s Fault": Mental Health Policy in Modern America
9. Psychiatry and Social Control in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
10. Psychiatric Therapeutics and the Historian
11. "A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure": Sexual Surgery for Psychosis in Three Nineteenth-Century Societies
12. Focal Sepsis and Psychosis: The Career of Thomas Chivers Graves, B.Sc., M.D., F.C.R.S., M.R.C.V.S. (1883-1964)
In this compelling read Andrew Scull – one of the leading names in the field – presents a selection of his most important published papers on the history of psychiatry, critically examining figures such as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter.