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Madness: A Very Short Introduction 279

Paperback • 2011 • English

Madness: A Very Short Introduction 279

By Andrew Scull

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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. In this Very Short Introduction , Andrew Scull provides a provocative and entertaining examination of the social, cultural, medical, and artistic responses to mental disturbance across more than two millennia, concluding with some observations on the contemporary accounts of mental illness. He shows that through the centuries, in poetr...Show more

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9780199608034

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2011

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English

Original title

Madness: A Very Short Introduction 279

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