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...

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

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

In this illuminating multidisciplinary reference, expert scholars explore the culture of mental i...

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