1st Edition
Social Order/Mental Disorder Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Acknowledgments. List of Illustrations. 1. Reflections in the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. Moral Architecture: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth-Century America 11. Dazeland 12. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Andrew T. Scull (born 1947) is a British-born sociologist whose research is centered on the social history of medicine and particularly psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at University of California, San Diego and recipient of the Roy Porter Medal for lifetime contributions to the history of medicine
