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Hysteria: The Disturbing History by Andrew Scull
$23.99 NZD
Category: Psychology
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
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"Madhouse" reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental illnesses were the product of chronic infections that poisoned the brain. Convinced th ...Show more
Madness by Andrew Scull
$15.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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
$65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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 Civilization - A Cultural History of Insanity by Andrew Scull
$35.00 NZD
Category: Psychology
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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