Andrew Scull

The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

Essays on the History of Psychiatry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415762120
• ISBN-10: 041576212X
• Artikelnr.: 39703077

Autorenporträt

Andrew Scull received his B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton prior to coming to UCSD. His books include Museums of Madness; Decarceration; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen; Durkheim and the Law (with Steven Lukes); Social Control and the State (with Stanley Cohen); Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900; and Masters of Bedlam.

Inhaltsangabe

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)