01787nam 2200433 450 991079373720332120230830134237.00-500-77256-8(CKB)4100000009153925(MiAaPQ)EBC5877991(EXLCZ)99410000000915392520190930d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMadness in civilization a cultural history of insanity form the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine /Andrew ScullLondon :Thames & Hudson,2015.1 online resource (424 pages)0-500-25212-2 This volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humors to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its meanings, its consequences and our various attempts to understand and treat it.mental illnessengEUROVOCpsychiatryengEUROVOCpsychologyengEUROVOCPsychiatryHistorymental illnesspsychiatrypsychologyPsychiatryHistory.616.89009Scull Andrew1947-1538819MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793737203321Madness in civilization3789212UNINA