The insanity of place, the place of insanity
Subtitle: essays on the history of psychiatry
By: Andrew Scull.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Psychiatry -- History; Social psychiatry -- History
Description: "This book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Its historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter, and subsequent chapters examine some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present." "The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest to students and professionals of the history of medicine and of psychiatry, as well as sociologists concerned with deviance and social control, the sociology of mental illness, and the sociology of the professions."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Musings about madness; title: The insanity of place; title: A failure to communicate?; title: Madmen and their keepers; title: The mad-doctor and his craft; title: Museums of madness revisited; title: Blinded by biology; title: "Nobody's fault"; title: Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; title: Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian; title: "A chance to cut is a chance to cure"; title: Focal sepsis and psychosis.