Madness In Civilization by Andrew Scull
A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
A sweeping cultural and social history that traces how societies have defined, confined, treated, and understood mental illness across eras, arguing that practices from medieval confinement and asylum systems to modern psychiatry and deinstitutionalization reflect shifting power relations, scientific ideas, and social anxieties; it exposes the often coercive, political, and stigmatizing responses to madness while showing how concepts of normality and deviance are historically constructed.
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- 2015
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