Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

By
Andrew Scull
Andrew Scull
2015 • 448 pages

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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196 books

Psychology

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Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

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11 books

Psychiatry

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Desperate Remedies
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Hysteria: The Biography
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Driven to Distraction

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17 books

Mad Studies

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Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Desperate Remedies
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Hysteria: The Biography
Failure to Comply
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

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107 books

Disability Studies

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American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
The Spoon Knife Anthology
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
Fit to Be Tied
Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity

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14 books

History Of Psychology

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine