The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry /
Scull, Andrew T.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index.
Musings about madness -- The insanity of place -- A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians -- Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry -- The mad-doctor and his craft -- Museums of madness revisited -- Blinded by biology -- "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America -- Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian -- "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies -- Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).
Psychiatry
Social psychiatry