Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1981-08

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0812211197

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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 the patient.

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 151280682X

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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 the patient.

Madmen
Madmen

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1981-08-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780812211191

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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 the patient.

Madness and Civilization
Madness and Civilization

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0307833100

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Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Madness in Civilization
Madness in Civilization

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 0691166153

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Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.

The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity
The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

Author: Andrew Scull

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1135988560

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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.

The Most Dreadful Visitation
The Most Dreadful Visitation

Author: Valerie Pedlar

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0853238391

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Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The 'Most Dreadful Visitation.' This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins's Basil, and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings--and fears--of mental degeneracy.An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.