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Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the hi...

Madness in Civilization

The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we i...

Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the hi...

Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness

Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A to Z Guide looks at recent reports that suggest an ast...

Madness

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are univers...

Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade

This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its p...

Hysteria

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. W...

Social Order/Mental Disorder

Social Order Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response...

Madness in Civilization

A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense...

Loucura na civilização

Durkheim and the Law

The law was central to Durkheim's sociological theory and to his efforts to establish sociology a...

Asylum as Utopia

What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significanc...