Social Order Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Medicine and Society, No 3)

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 issues including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession, the link between sex and madness, and the constitution, character and collapse of the asylum as the standard response to mental disorders. An exploration of social responses to madness in England and the USA from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Scull examines a range of issues including the changing social meanings of madness, the emergence and consolidation of the psychiatric profession and the link between sex and madness. Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century.