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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
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The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812211191
SKU
V9780812211191
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99-1
About Scull
Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
"These essays are valuable for the complexities they uncover as they ground our previously simplistic interpretation of Victorian psychiatric practice in reality and for the retrospective insight they bring to consideration of the profession's problems today."—A. B. Bookman's Weekly