New Books Network Podcast Episodes featuring Andrew Scull

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...