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Andrew
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Profile Psychiatry in Britain and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth century, the history of medical specialization and medical therapeutics, the history of sociology in the United States, and Durkheim and Durkheimian sociology. He is currently engaged in a study of the use of somatic therapies in Anglo-American psychiatry. His publications include Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England (1979), Social Order / Mental Disorder: Anglo- American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (1988), The Asylum as Utopia: W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry (1990), The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700-1900 (1993 ), The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade: Psychiatric lives and Careers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1996), Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-doctoring in Eighteenth Century England (2001) and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade: The Treatment of Lunacy in Eighteenth Century London (2002) as well as numerous articles on the history and sociology of psychiatry. Professor Scull is a member of the Editorial Boards of History of Psychiatry and Medical History and past President of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Books: *A. Scull, The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity: Essays on the History of Psychiatry, Yale University Press, 2005. * A. Scull, and Jonathan Andrews (equal co-authors), Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth Century London. University of California Press, 2003. *A. Scull and J. Andrews (equal co-authors): Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England, Berkeley and London,University of California Press, 2001. *A. Scull, secondary co-authors: C.MacKenzie,and N.Hervey: Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. *A. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700-1900, Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. *A. Scull, Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo- American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. *A. Scull: Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant: A Radical View. Second revised and enlarged edition. Oxford: Polity Press/New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1984. *A. Scull and Steven Lukes: Durkheim and the Law. Oxford: Basil Blackwell / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. *A. Scull, Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England. London: Allen Lane: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. *A. Scull, Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1977. |
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