Madness: A Very Short Introduction

by Andrew Scull

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00ZT10GKY
• ISBN13: 9780199608034
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 4.1"