TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scull, Andrew 
TI  - The insanity of place / the place of insanity: essays on the history of psychiatry
SN  - 9780415762120
U1  - 616.89 SCU/I 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - United Kingdom -- 
PB  - Routledge -- 
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - History
KW  - Social psychiatry
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Mental Disorders
N1  - 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)


N2  - 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
ER  -