The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry

by Andrew Scull

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:041576212X

ISBN13:9780415762120

Release Date:August 2014

Publisher:Routledge

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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