'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking dis...

Written by one of the world's most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Dis...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University ...

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

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