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.
| ISBN: | 9780500295632 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2020 |
| Author: | Andrew Scull |
| Publisher: | Thames and Hudson an imprint of Thames and Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history |
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.
Madness in Civilization features in the following genres: Social and cultural history
Madness in Civilization is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Madness in Civilization was written by Andrew Scull and published by Thames and Hudson an imprint of Thames and Hudson Ltd
Madness in Civilization has 448 pages
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