About this history book
Madness in civilization : a cultural history of insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine by Scull, Andrew is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us: these are a part of our shared human experience whatever culture we come from. Nowadays, mental disturbance is most commonly (though not always) viewed through a medical lens, but human beings have also always sought to make sense of the depredations of madness through invocations of the religious and the supernatural, or to
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Scull, Andrew
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780500772560
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Medical, Western
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (145 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14