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Rewriting the History of Insanity? - Andrew Jacques Scull, Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2015

Alex Barnard
Alex Barnard*
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University of California, Berkeley [[email protected]]
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , December 2015 , pp. 555 - 560
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References

1 Scull Andrew T. 2005. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. New Haven, Yale University Press.

2 Scull Andrew T. 1977. Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant-A Radical View. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall.

3 It is worth noting that, despite not being a particularly popular term in modern sociological parlance, Scull never explains what “civilization” means.

4 Horwitz Allan V. 2001. Creating Mental Illness. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

5 Abbott Andrew, 1988. The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

6 Rose Nikolas. 2006. The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

7 Foucault Michel. 2006. The History of Madness, edited by J. Khalfa, New York: Routledge, xii-xiii.

8 Foucault Michel. 2008. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France, 1973-1974, edited by J. Lagrange, Palgrave Macmillan:12.

9 Hacking Ian, 1995. “The Looping Effects of Human Kinds”, in Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by D. Sperber, D. Premack, and A. J. Premack, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 351-383.