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Community Treatment and the Deviant - A Radical View
"Decarceration" is a word which has not yet entered the dictionary. But it is increasingly being used to designate a process with momentous implicatio...
A Very Short Introduction
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar and a condition that haunts the human i...
An A-to-Z Guide
In this illuminating multidisciplinary reference, expert scholars explore the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociolog...
The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-century England
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Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective
This book is an exploration of social responses to madness in England and the USA from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Scull examines a range of ...
The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
Essays on the History of Psychiatry
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-century London : with the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book
This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or ""customers""), and its patrons, viewed t...