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Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century.

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Author:   Andrew Scull
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9780415036368

ISBN 10:   0415036364
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 June 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Reflections on the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry 2. Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry 3. The Domestication of Madness 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered 5. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic 6. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs 7. John Conolly: A Victorian Psychiatric Career 8. A Convenient Place to Get Rid of Inconvenient People: The Victorian Lunatic Asylum 9. Was Insanity Increasing? 10. Progressive Dreams, Progressive Nightmares: Social Control in Twentieth Century America 11. Sex and Madness 12. Cyclical Trends in Psychiatric Practice: The Case of Bettleheim and Tuke 13. The Theory and Practice of Civil Commitment 14. The Asylum as Community or the Community as Asylum: Paradoxes and Contradictions of Mental Health Care

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