Madhouse by Andrew Scull
A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
A historical investigation into early twentieth-century psychiatry, this work chronicles a renowned asylum director’s crusade to cure mental illness by eradicating supposed bodily infections, leading to mass tooth extractions, organ removals, and countless deaths. Drawing on archives and case records, it exposes medical hubris and institutional complicity, situating these tragic experiments within the era’s faith in surgical cures, eugenics, and shaky science, and showing how authority and ambition can devastate vulnerable patients.
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- Published
- 2005
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 368-392
- Original Language
- English
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