Andrew T. Scull Books
Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade
By Jonathan Andrews, Andrew T. Scull
"This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book...
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Undertaker of the Mind
By Jonathan Andrews, Andrew T. Scull
"As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first (and for hundreds of years only) public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrit...
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Madness in civilization
"The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that seizes hold and won't let go--these are some of the tr...
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