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Author Scull, Andrew, 1946-
Title Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine / Andrew Scull.
Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2015.


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Descript 448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), portraits (one colour) ; 24 cm
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Note "First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Thames & Hudson Ltd"--Title-page verso.
Contents Confronting madness -- Madness in the ancient world -- The darkness and the dawn -- Melancholie and madnesse -- Madhouses and mad-doctors -- Nerves and nervousness -- The great confinement -- Degeneration and despair -- The demi-fous -- Desperate remedies -- A meaningful interlude -- A psychiatric revolution?
ISBN 9780500252123
9780691166155
0691166153
0500252122
EAN 9780691166155
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Author Scull, Andrew, 1946-
Subject Mental illness -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History.
Mentally ill -- Care -- History.
Psychiatry -- History.
Descript 448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), portraits (one colour) ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Note "First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Thames & Hudson Ltd"--Title-page verso.
Contents Confronting madness -- Madness in the ancient world -- The darkness and the dawn -- Melancholie and madnesse -- Madhouses and mad-doctors -- Nerves and nervousness -- The great confinement -- Degeneration and despair -- The demi-fous -- Desperate remedies -- A meaningful interlude -- A psychiatric revolution?
ISBN 9780500252123
9780691166155
0691166153
0500252122
EAN 9780691166155
Author Scull, Andrew, 1946-
Subject Mental illness -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History.
Mentally ill -- Care -- History.
Psychiatry -- History.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  RC 438 S4  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Mental illness -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- History.
Mentally ill -- Care -- History.
Psychiatry -- History.
Descript 448 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), portraits (one colour) ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Note "First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Thames & Hudson Ltd"--Title-page verso.
Contents Confronting madness -- Madness in the ancient world -- The darkness and the dawn -- Melancholie and madnesse -- Madhouses and mad-doctors -- Nerves and nervousness -- The great confinement -- Degeneration and despair -- The demi-fous -- Desperate remedies -- A meaningful interlude -- A psychiatric revolution?
ISBN 9780500252123
9780691166155
0691166153
0500252122
EAN 9780691166155
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