Hysteria: The disturbing history (Biographies of Disease)

Scull, Andrew

ISBN 10: 019969298X / ISBN 13: 9780199692989

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hysteria: The disturbing history (Biographies of Disease)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019969298X
• ISBN 13: 9780199692989
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 270 grams

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Synopsis

A fascinating account of this socially constructed disease.

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.