Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine / Andrew Scull.
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TextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 448 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500292549; 050029254XSubject(s): Mental illness -- History | Mental illness -- Social conditions | Art and mental illness -- History | Psychiatrie | Wahnsinn | Krankheitsbild | Psychische Störung | PsychopathologieDDC classification: 362.209 LOC classification: RC438 | .S38 2016Summary: This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our various attempts to understand and treat it.
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Originally published : 2015.
'With 128 illustrations, 44 in color' --Title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-439) and index.
This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our various attempts to understand and treat it.
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