The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scull, Andrew, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 2.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 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).