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

Scull, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500295638 ISBN 13 : 9780500295632

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Madness in Civilization, 9780500295632

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of many books, including Masters of Bedlam; Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine; and Madness: A Very Short Introduction.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500295638
• ISBN 13: 9780500295632
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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