Originally published in 1989, this book represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Originally published in 1989, this book represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Andrew T. Scull (born 1947) is a British-born sociologist whose research is centered on the social history of medicine and particularly psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at University of California, San Diego and recipient of the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contributions to the history of medicine
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Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. 1. Reflections in the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth-Century America 11. Dazeland 12. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care. Bibliography. Index.
Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. 1. Reflections in the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth-Century America 11. Dazeland 12. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care. Bibliography. Index.
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