Podcast Episodes featuring Andrew Scull

Surprising ways we handle people with madness with professor Andrew Scull

Grow Big Always - February 20, 2017 13:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
When you live in the Bay Area you pass tons of folks who appear to be mad. Most of us don’t spend enough time focusing on how our culture handles folks on the spectrum of some level of mental illness. When you think about it— the range of “madness” ranges from people with very serious mental illn...

Andrew Scull, “Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity” (Princeton UP, 2015)

New Books Network - January 20, 2017 17:37 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
The wish to understand mental suffering is universal and requires an appreciation for its history. Since Biblical times, humans have understood madness, or other deviations from normal mental functioning, in diverse and unique ways. These have included belief in divine origins, biological causati...