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The insanity of place / the place of insanity: essays on the history of psychiatry

By: Scull, Andrew
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2014Description: vi, 246pISBN: 9780415762120Subject(s): Psychiatry | History | Social psychiatry | Hospitals | Mental DisordersDDC classification: 616.89 SCU/I Summary: 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.
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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.

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