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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this masterful work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled historyFor more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated by ...Show more
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this acclaimed work, Andrew Scull, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry, sheds light on its troubled history. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated ...Show more
Hysteria: The Disturbing History by Andrew Scull
$16.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through h ...Show more
Madness by Andrew Scull
$16.95 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Very Short Introductions
Madness is something that frightens and fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, and a condition that haunts the human imagination. Through the centuries, in poetry and in prose, in drama and in the visual arts, its depredations are on display for all to see. A whole ind ...Show more
Madness In Civilization by Andrew Scull
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This hugely ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcis ...Show more
Madness in Civilisation by Andrew Scull
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to me ...Show more
Madness in Civilization - A Cultural History of Insanity by Andrew Scull
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to me ...Show more
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