Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine
Scull, Andrew, 1946-2016
Books, Manuscripts
This 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 12 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.
Main title:
Author:
Scull, Andrew, 1946-, author
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Collation:
448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9780500292549 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.46109
Language:
English
BRN:
2380440