Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for his previous work in this area, examines a range of issues, including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the often troubled relationship between psychiatry and the law, the linkages between sex and madness, and the constitution, character, and collapse of the asylum as our standard response to...
Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United Sta...
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.
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestati...
Od Bible k Sigmundu Freudovi, od exorcismu k mesmerismu, od blázinců k psychiatrickým nemocnicím, od teorie tělesných šťáv k moderní farmakologii, tam všude nás provází kniha předního amerického historika psychiatrie Andrewa Sculla. Autor důkladně sleduje, jaký byl postoj různých civilizací v průběhu tisíciletí k projevům neobvyklého chování a duševních onemocnění, všímá si proměn tohoto vztahu i jeho odrazu zejména v umění. Centrem jeho pozornosti je nejen civilizace Západu, ale i to, jak západní postoje pronikaly do ostatních částí světa....
Od Bible k Sigmundu Freudovi, od exorcismu k mesmerismu, od blázinců k psychiatrickým nemocnicím, od teorie tělesných šťáv k moderní farmako...
