1st Edition

The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity Essays on the History of Psychiatry

By Andrew Scull Copyright 2006
256 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter. Chapters... Read more

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. Madmen 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, B.Sc., M.D., F.C.R.S., M.R.C.V.S. (1883-1964)

Biography

Andrew Scull received his B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton prior to coming to UCSD. His books include Museums of Madness; Decarceration; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen; Durkheim and the Law (with Steven Lukes); Social Control and the State (with Stanley Cohen); Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900; and Masters of Bedlam.