Social Order: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

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Routledge, 1989 - Psychology - 360 pages
Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social responses to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through to the twentieth century.

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About the author (1989)

Andrew Scull is professor of sociology and science studies, University of California, San Diego. He is also the author of "Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900," published by Yale University Press

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