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

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
Andrew Scull
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h198 x 129mm - 448pg
30 Jan 2020 UK
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9780500295632
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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.
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ISBN-13: 9780500295632
Published: 30 Jan 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 448

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