Book Review: Madness in civilization: A cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine

Authors

Edward Cohen, San Jose State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

July 2016

Publication Title

Research on Social Work Practice

Volume

26

Issue Number

4

First Page

469

Last Page

469

DOI

10.1177/1049731515625812

Disciplines

Psychiatry and Psychology | Public Health

Abstract

A review of: Scull, Andrew. (2015). Madness in civilization: A cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 448 pp. $39.50 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-16615-5.

Comments

This is an Author's Original Manuscript of a review published by SAGE in Research on Social Work Practice, volume 26, issue 4, July 2016. The Version of Record is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731515625812
SJSU users: use the following link to login and access the review via SJSU databases.

Recommended Citation

Edward Cohen. "Book Review: Madness in civilization: A cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the madhouse to modern medicine" Research on Social Work Practice (2016): 469-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731515625812