Andrew T Scull
Biographic Data
| ID | 213969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew T Scull |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew T |
| FAMILY NAME | Scull |
| SIGNATURE | SCULL A T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers…
Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody
Reviewed by: Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry Andrew Scull Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby, eds. Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody: Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry. Clio Medica, no. 73. Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2004. 338 pp. $104.00, €80.00 (cloth, 90-420-1186-6); $5…
The Borderland of Imbecility
In the past decade, historians of psychiatry have begun to expand their field of interest to encompass problem populations on the borderlands of their field, just as the psychiatric profession itself began to do in the late nineteenth century. The mentally deficient—people the Victorians blithely referred to as idiots, imbeciles, and the feebleminded (representing points on a continuum from the most to the least incompetent)—have been a particula…
Medicine and Magnificence
Christine Stevenson's remarkably fine new book provides a detailed and original survey of British hospital and asylum architecture in the period between the Stuart Restoration and the defeat of Napoleon—a particularly fertile century and a half, punctuated by an explosion of new hospital and asylum foundations and some radical shifts in institutional design and purpose. Stevenson's analysis is greatly enriched by a plethora of beautifully reprodu…
Asylums and After
Reviewed by: Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services, from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s, and: The Mad among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill Andrew Scull Kathleen Jones. Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services, from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s. London: Athlone Press, 1993. 306 pp. Tables. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paperbound). Gerald N. Grob. The Mad…
Handbooks Past and Present
The Impossible Will Take a Little Longer
Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control
"Ostrich" Sociology
Cohort Processes and the Definition of Sociology
Drawing Boundaries
An Empirical World Loosely Coupled
Research in Law, Deviance, and Social Control
Museums of Madness
Decarceration
Museums of Madness
Museums of Madness
Prisons Past and Future
Decarceration
Privatization and Capitalist Development
This paper investigates some of the relationships between private policing and the development of capitalist economic systems. We argue that the emergence and transformation of profit-oriented police services must be understood as part of a larger movement toward the extension of capitalist control over the labor process and the rationalization of productive activity. Three distinctive stages in the privatization of policing are discussed–policin…
Madness and Segregative Control
This paper forms part of an effort to develop an historically informed macro-sociological perspective on the inter-relationships between deviance, control structures, and the wider social systems of which they are a part. Focusing on the treatment of the mad, it seeks to provide a structural explanation of the adoption of the asylum as the primary response to the problems posed by lunatics. Both David Rothman's provocative recent work on the Amer…
Mad-doctors and Magistrates
ThisPaper is the second of two essays devoted to a sociological examination of the emergence and attempted professionalization of psychiatry in Victorian England. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the rapid growth of an institutional response to madness: first in the form of private, profit-making madhouses, and then, via direct state investment in the asylum solution, in the form of a rapidly proliferating network of c…
The Decarceration of the Mentally Ill
Circle of Madness
Cyclical trends in psychiatric practice
Privatization and Capitalist Development
This paper investigates some of the relationships between private policing and the development of capitalist economic systems. We argue that the emergence and transformation of profit-oriented police services must be understood as part of a larger movement toward the extension of capitalist control over the labor process and the rationalization of productive activity. Three distinctive stages in the privatization of policing are discussed–policin…
Madness and Segregative Control
This paper forms part of an effort to develop an historically informed macro-sociological perspective on the inter-relationships between deviance, control structures, and the wider social systems of which they are a part. Focusing on the treatment of the mad, it seeks to provide a structural explanation of the adoption of the asylum as the primary response to the problems posed by lunatics. Both David Rothman's provocative recent work on the Amer…
From Madness to Mental Illness
This paper seeks to provide a sociological account of one aspect of a highly significant redefinition of the moral boundaries of English society: a redefinition which saw the transformation of insanity from a vague, culturally defined phenomenon afflicting an unknown, but probably small, portion of the total population into a condition which could only be authoritatively diagnosed, certified, and dealt with by a group of legally recognized expert…
Decarceration
Durkheim's 'Two laws of penal evolution
1973). Durkheim's ‘Two laws of penal evolution’. Economy and Society: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 278-284
The Decarceration of the Mentally Ill
Mad-doctors and Magistrates
ThisPaper is the second of two essays devoted to a sociological examination of the emergence and attempted professionalization of psychiatry in Victorian England. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the rapid growth of an institutional response to madness: first in the form of private, profit-making madhouses, and then, via direct state investment in the asylum solution, in the form of a rapidly proliferating network of c…
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, comprising the doctor's jottings on patients he saw in the course of his private practice--patients drawn from a great variety of social strata--offers…
Handbooks Past and Present
Drawing Boundaries
Cyclical trends in psychiatric practice
Durkheim's 'Two laws of penal evolution
1973). Durkheim's ‘Two laws of penal evolution’. Economy and Society: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 278-284
Cyclical trends in psychiatric practice
From Madness to Mental Illness
This paper seeks to provide a sociological account of one aspect of a highly significant redefinition of the moral boundaries of English society: a redefinition which saw the transformation of insanity from a vague, culturally defined phenomenon afflicting an unknown, but probably small, portion of the total population into a condition which could only be authoritatively diagnosed, certified, and dealt with by a group of legally recognized expert…
Mad-doctors and Magistrates
ThisPaper is the second of two essays devoted to a sociological examination of the emergence and attempted professionalization of psychiatry in Victorian England. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the rapid growth of an institutional response to madness: first in the form of private, profit-making madhouses, and then, via direct state investment in the asylum solution, in the form of a rapidly proliferating network of c…
The Decarceration of the Mentally Ill
Circle of Madness
Privatization and Capitalist Development
This paper investigates some of the relationships between private policing and the development of capitalist economic systems. We argue that the emergence and transformation of profit-oriented police services must be understood as part of a larger movement toward the extension of capitalist control over the labor process and the rationalization of productive activity. Three distinctive stages in the privatization of policing are discussed–policin…
Madness and Segregative Control
This paper forms part of an effort to develop an historically informed macro-sociological perspective on the inter-relationships between deviance, control structures, and the wider social systems of which they are a part. Focusing on the treatment of the mad, it seeks to provide a structural explanation of the adoption of the asylum as the primary response to the problems posed by lunatics. Both David Rothman's provocative recent work on the Amer…
Prisons Past and Future
Decarceration
Museums of Madness
Decarceration
Museums of Madness
Museums of Madness
Research in Law, Deviance, and Social Control
Handbooks Past and Present
The Impossible Will Take a Little Longer
Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control
"Ostrich" Sociology
Cohort Processes and the Definition of Sociology
Drawing Boundaries
An Empirical World Loosely Coupled
Asylums and After
Reviewed by: Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services, from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s, and: The Mad among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill Andrew Scull Kathleen Jones. Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services, from the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s. London: Athlone Press, 1993. 306 pp. Tables. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paperbound). Gerald N. Grob. The Mad…
The Borderland of Imbecility
In the past decade, historians of psychiatry have begun to expand their field of interest to encompass problem populations on the borderlands of their field, just as the psychiatric profession itself began to do in the late nineteenth century. The mentally deficient—people the Victorians blithely referred to as idiots, imbeciles, and the feebleminded (representing points on a continuum from the most to the least incompetent)—have been a particula…
Medicine and Magnificence
Christine Stevenson's remarkably fine new book provides a detailed and original survey of British hospital and asylum architecture in the period between the Stuart Restoration and the defeat of Napoleon—a particularly fertile century and a half, punctuated by an explosion of new hospital and asylum foundations and some radical shifts in institutional design and purpose. Stevenson's analysis is greatly enriched by a plethora of beautifully reprodu…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · History (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)