Madness: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Scull, Andrew

 
9780199608034: Madness: A Very Short Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199608032 ISBN 13: 9780199608034
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2011

Synopsis

A provocative and entertaining examination of the social, cultural, medical, and artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two millennia

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About the Author

Andrew Scull has held faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and the University of California, where he is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He is a past president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, many of them on the history of psychiatry in Britain and the United States. He has lectured on five continents, as well as making many media appearances on programmes dealing with mental health issues.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199608032
ISBN 13 
9780199608034
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160