Books+ Search Results
The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry
Author
Title
The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry / Andrew Scull.
ISBN
0415770068 (hardback)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description
vi, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 07, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index.
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).
Subjects
Bookmark As
Citation
