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Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era by Andrew Scull (1981, Trade Paperback)

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press. Number of Pages: 400. Weight: 1.29 lbs. Publication Date: 1981-08-01. ISBN13: 9780812211191.

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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-100812211197

ISBN-139780812211191

eBay Product ID (ePID)2085855

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Number of Pages400 Pages

Publication NameMadhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : the Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1981

SubjectPsychiatry / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, History

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory, Medical

AuthorAndrew Scull

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN81-003365

ReviewsThese essays are valuable for the complexities they uncover as they ground our previously simplistic interpretation of Victorian psychiatric practice in reality and for the retrospective insight they bring to consideration of the profession's problems today., "These essays are valuable for the complexities they uncover as they ground our previously simplistic interpretation of Victorian psychiatric practice in reality and for the retrospective insight they bring to consideration of the profession's problems today."-- A. B. Bookman's Weekly

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SynopsisThe Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen , contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.