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Madness in Civilization
A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2020
177 kr
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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 …
Från psyke till psykologi : historien om människans inre liv
Av Gerhard Andersson, John Cottingham m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
338 kr
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Från psyke till psykologi. Historien om människans inre liv utforskar teman som medvetande, jagets natur och gränserna mellan galenskap och förnuft, drömmar och verklighet. På en resa genom psykologins historia, från dess filosofiska ursprung i antikens Grekland till dagens användning av terapier …
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2021
243 kr
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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of …
Madhouse
A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2007
258 kr
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“Reads as much like a novel as it does a work of medical scholarship.”—Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book ReviewMadhouse revealsa long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth …
Madness
A Very Short Introduction
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2011
116 kr
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Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole …
Desperate Remedies
Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, …
Undertaker of the Mind
John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2001
757 kr
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As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a 'connoisseur of insanity, this high …
Desperate Remedies
Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2022
136 kr
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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the wellbeing of patients suffering from mental disorders. An eloquent, meticulously documented, …
Most Solitary of Afflictions
Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2005
695 kr
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The routine confinement of the deranged in a network of specialized and purposely built asylums is essentially a 19th-century phenomenon. Likewise, it is only from the Victorian era that a newly self-conscious and organized profession of psychiatry emerged and sought to shut the mad away in …
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Av Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2019
270 kr
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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of …
Madness
A Very Short Introduction
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole …
Madness
A Very Short Introduction
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2011
95 kr
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Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole …
Asylum as Utopia
W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2013
3162 kr
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What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and …
Asylum as Utopia
W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2015
668 kr
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What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and …
Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2014
773 kr
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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 …
Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2006
2591 kr
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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 …
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2018
660 kr
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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the …
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2018
660 kr
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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the …
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
Av Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2003
794 kr
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This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, …
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London
Av Andrew Scull, Jonathan Andrews
E-bok, 2003
925 kr
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This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro''s case book, …
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2019
398 kr
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Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony of …
Masters of Bedlam
The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
Av Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
810 kr
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Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the …
Masters of Bedlam
The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade
Av Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
3265 kr
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Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century "mad-doctors," Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the …
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 1981
459 kr
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The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, …
Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2006
910 kr
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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 …
Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
Av Andrew Scull
E-bok, 2006
890 kr
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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 …
Durkheim and the Law
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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The law was central to Durkheim's sociological theory and to his efforts to establish sociology as a distinctive discipline. This revised and updated second edition of Durkheim and the Law brings together key texts which demonstrate the development of Durkheim's thinking on the sociology of law, …
Durkheim and the Law
Inbunden, 2013
1829 kr
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The law was central to Durkheim's sociological theory and to his efforts to establish sociology as a distinctive discipline. This revised and updated second edition of Durkheim and the Law brings together key texts which demonstrate the development of Durkheim's thinking on the sociology of law, …
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Av Andrew Scull
Inbunden, 2018
2200 kr
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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the …
Social Order/Mental Disorder
Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
Av Andrew Scull
Häftad, 2020
563 kr
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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the …
