In this compelling read Andrew Scull - one of the leading names in the field - presents a selection of his most important published papers on the history of psychiatry, critically examining figures such as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter.
In this compelling read Andrew Scull - one of the leading names in the field - presents a selection of his most important published papers on the history of psychiatry, critically examining figures such as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter, and Edward Shorter.
Andrew Scull received his B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton prior to coming to UCSD. His books include Museums of Madness; Decarceration; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen; Durkheim and the Law (with Steven Lukes); Social Control and the State (with Stanley Cohen); Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900; and Masters of Bedlam.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Musings about Madness 2. The Insanity of Place 3. A Failure to Communicate? On the Reception of Foucault's Histoire de la Folie by Anglo-American Historians 4. Madmen and their Keepers: Roy Porter and the History of Psychiatry 5. The Mad-Doctor and his Craft 6. Museums of Madness Revisited 7. Blinded by Biology 8. "Nobody's Fault": Mental Health Policy in Modern America 9. Psychiatry and Social Control in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Psychiatric Therapeutics and the Historian 11. "A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure": Sexual Surgery for Psychosis in Three Nineteenth-Century Societies 12. Focal Sepsis and Psychosis: The Career of Thomas Chivers Graves, B.Sc., M.D., F.C.R.S., M.R.C.V.S. (1883-1964)
1. Musings about Madness 2. The Insanity of Place 3. A Failure to Communicate? On the Reception of Foucault's Histoire de la Folie by Anglo-American Historians 4. Madmen and their Keepers: Roy Porter and the History of Psychiatry 5. The Mad-Doctor and his Craft 6. Museums of Madness Revisited 7. Blinded by Biology 8. "Nobody's Fault": Mental Health Policy in Modern America 9. Psychiatry and Social Control in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 10. Psychiatric Therapeutics and the Historian 11. "A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure": Sexual Surgery for Psychosis in Three Nineteenth-Century Societies 12. Focal Sepsis and Psychosis: The Career of Thomas Chivers Graves, B.Sc., M.D., F.C.R.S., M.R.C.V.S. (1883-1964)
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
