Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, Andrew Scull society & culture It tells the tale of

It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest

dirty cups - because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her

and 10 great places to cry

It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest

a nationally known author

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, Andrew Scull society & culture It tells the tale ofThis ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to society and our responses to it. In twelve chapters organized chronologically from the Bible to Freud, from exorcism to mesmerism, from Bedlam to Victorian asylums, from the theory of humours to modern pharmacology, Andrew Scull writes compellingly about madness, its