Social order/mental disorder : Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective / / Andrew Scull [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495967203321
• Autore: Scull Andrew T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1989
• ISBN: 0-585-07925-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 360 p. ) : ill.
• Collana: Medicine and society Social order/mental disorder; Medicine and society ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 616.89/009
• Soggetti: Community Psychiatry; Psychiatry - history; Psychiatry - History; Social psychiatry; Psychology, Social; Psychiatry; Medicine; Psychology; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Behavioral Sciences; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Health Occupations; Psychiatry and Psychology; Disciplines and Occupations; Psychiatry - General; Health & Biological Sciences; History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references (p.[331]-350) and index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-350) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reflections on the historical sociology of psychiatry -- Humanitarianism or control? Some observations on the historiography of Anglo-American psychiatry -- The domestication of madness -- Moral treatment reconsidered -- The discovery of the Asylum revisited: ; lunacy reform in the New American Republic -- From Madness to mental illness: medical men as moral entrepreneurs -- John Conolly: a Victorian psychiatric career -- Moral architecture; the Victorian lunatic asylum -- Was insanity increasing? -- Progressive dreams, progressive nightmares: social control in twentieth-century America -- Dazeland -- The theory and practice of civil commitment -- The asylum as community or the community as Asylum: paradoxes and contradictions of mental health care.