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Madness in Civilization
A Culural History of Insanity
- Thames & Hudson
- by Andrew Scull
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 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 attempts to understand it.
ISBN 9780500295632 | E | PB
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| Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9780500295632 |
| Author(s) | Andrew Scull |
| Publication date | January 2020 |
| Edition | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Illustrations | 128 col. & bw ill. |
| Pages | 448 |
| Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
| extra information | New in B-format Pb |
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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 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 attempts to understand and treat it.