Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900
Andrew Scull is professor of sociology and science studies, University of California, San Diego. Among his publications are Museums of Madness (1979), Masters of Bedlam (1996), Undertaker of the Mind (2001), and his forthcoming Yale publication, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Medical Murder and Megalomania.