This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the hi...

The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we i...

This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the hi...

Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A to Z Guide looks at recent reports that suggest an ast...

Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are univers...

This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its p...

The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. W...

Social Order Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response...

A beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreasonThe loss of reason, a sense...

The law was central to Durkheim's sociological theory and to his efforts to establish sociology a...

What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significanc...