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 on psychiatric therapeutics and on the shifting social
responses to madness over a period of almost three centuries add to
a comprehensive assessment of Anglo-American confrontations with
madness in this period, and make the book invaluable for those
concerned to understand the psychiatric enterprise.
The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest
to students and professionals of the history of medicine and of
psychiatry, as well as sociologists concerned with deviance and
social control, the sociology of mental illness and the sociology
of the professions.
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