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The insanity of place, the place of insanity : essays on the history of psychiatry / Andrew Scull

By: Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 2Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: vi, 246 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415770068
  • 978-0-415-77006-4
  • 978-0-203-08798-5
  • 0-203-08798-4
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89 22
Contents:
Musings about madness -- The insanity of place -- A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians -- Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry -- The mad-doctor and his craft -- Museums of madness revisited -- Blinded by biology -- "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America -- Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian -- "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies -- Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index.

Musings about madness -- The insanity of place -- A failure to communicate? : on the reception of Foucault's Histoire de la folie by Anglo-American historians -- Madmen and their keepers : Roy Potter and the history of psychiatry -- The mad-doctor and his craft -- Museums of madness revisited -- Blinded by biology -- "Nobody's fault"? : mental health policy in modern America -- Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Psychiatric therapeutics and the historian -- "A chance to cut is a chance to cure" : sexual surgery for psychosis in three nineteenth-century societies -- Focal sepsis and psychosis : the career of Thomas Chivers Graves (1883-1964).