Madness in Civilization

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

This hugely 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 various attempts to understand and treat it.

Book information

ISBN: 9780500252123
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.46109
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 1038g
Height: 240mm
Width: 167mm
Spine width: 48mm