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Social Order/Mental Disorder - Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,305
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Social Order/Mental Disorder - Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Hardcover): Andrew Scull

Social Order/Mental Disorder - Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Hardcover)

Andrew Scull

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry

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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 changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to the problems posed by mental disorder. This book is emphatically not part of the venerable tradition of hagiography that has celebrated psychiatric history as a long struggle in which the steady application of rational-scientific principles has produced irregular but unmistakable evidence of progress toward humane treatments for the mentally ill. In fact, Scull contends that traditional mental hospitals, for much of their existence, resembled cemeteries for the still breathing, medical hubris having at times served to license dangerous, mutilating, even life-threatening experiments on the dead souls confined therein. He argues that only the sociologically blind would deny that psychiatrists are deeply involved in the definition and identification of what constitutes madness in our world - hence, claims that mental illness is a purely naturalistic category, somehow devoid of contamination by the social, are taken to be patently absurd. Scull points out, however, that the commitment to examine psychiatry and its ministrations with a critical eye by no means entails the romantic idea that the problems it deals with are purely the invention of the professional mind, or the Manichean notion that all psychiatric interventions are malevolent and ill-conceived. It is the task of unromantic criticism that is attempted in this book.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
Release date: September 2018
First published: 1989
Authors: Andrew Scull
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-31589-1
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-138-31589-3
Barcode: 9781138315891

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