Madness in Civilization (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
448
Utgivningsdatum
2020-01-30
Förlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 44 Illustrations 84 Illustrations color
Illustrationer
84 Illustrations, black and white; 44 Illustrations, color
Dimensioner
31 x 188 x 128 mm
Vikt
440 g
ISBN
9780500295632

Madness in Civilization

A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

av Andrew Scull
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-01-30
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This 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 attempts to understand and treat it.
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'Perhaps the most comprehensive account of the history of psychiatry that has yet appeared in a single volume' - The Times Literary Supplement 'A milestone text No other monograph has accomplished such scope, perception and balance in covering madnesss haunting, shifting presence in civilizations psyche ' - BBC History Magazine 'Powerful and disturbing a panoramic survey' - The Sunday Times 'Learned, liberally humanitarian and wryly witty' - The Spectator

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Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Masters of Bedlam; Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine; and Madness: A Very Short Introduction.

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Endorsements 1. Confronting Madness 2. Madness in the Ancient World 3. The Darkness and the Dawn 4. Melancholie and Madnesse 5. Madhouses and MadDoctors 6. Nerves and Nervousness 7. The Great Confinement 8. Degeneration and Despair 9. The Demi-Fous 10. Desperate Remedies 11. A Meaningful Interlude 12. A Psychiatric Revolution?

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