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The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
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About This Book
Andrew Scull is a big name in the history of medicine, his previous book was reviewed glowingly by Roy Porter
There is a growing literature on the history of psychiatry
This volume represents an impressively wide range of coverage and will appear to historians and sociologists alike
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Frontmatter 1
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Madfolk 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 (1883–1964)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index