Andrew Scull

Datos Biográficos

ID238841
NOMBREAndrew Scull
NOMBRESAndrew
APELLIDOScull
FIRMASCULL A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0002-0768-3700
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS92
TOTAL DE CITAS160
TOTAL COMO AUTOR91
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1973
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H7

  • Rosenhan revisited

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2023

    The publication of David Rosenhan’s ‘On being sane in insane places’ in Science in 1973 played a crucial role in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to revise its diagnostic manual. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-III) in its turn launched a revolution in American psychiatry whose reverberations continue to this day. Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, a…

  • Madness in Civilization

    Open AccessAndrew ScullCHAPTERSunday Best2022

  • Madness in Civilization

    Open AccessAndrew ScullCHAPTERSunday Best2022

  • Foucault’s Folie et déraison

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2020

    Michel Foucault remains one of the most influential intellectuals in the early twenty-first century world. This paper examines the origins and impact of his first major work, Folie et déraison, on the history of psychiatry, particularly though not exclusively in the world of Anglo-American scholarship. The impact and limits of Foucault’s work on the author’s own contributions to the history of psychiatry are examined, as is the larger influence o…

  • Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade

    Andrew T Scull, Jonathan Andrews et al.BOOKCustomers and Patrons of the…2019Citada por: 1

    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…

  • Allan V. Horwitz. PTSD

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEJournal of the History of…2019

    Allan Horwitz’s book is the latest addition to the series of biographies of diseases edited by Charles Rosenberg. PTSD is an excellent survey: sharp, well-informed, probing and suitably skeptical of the epistemological status of a disorder that has become emblematic of our times. Horwitz is sympathetic to the suffering of trauma victims, but he is fully aware of the political, constructed nature of the underlying diagnosis, and the double-edged s…

  • Creating a new psychiatry

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2018

    This paper examines the early origins of the shift away from institutional psychiatry in the USA. It focuses on the period between 1900 and 1950. Attention is paid to the role of neurologists and disaffected asylum doctors in the early emergence of extra-institutional practice; to the impact of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and Thomas Salmon; to the limited role of psychoanalysis during most of this period; and to the influence of the…

  • Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England by Anna Shepherd (review)

    Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2015

    Reviewed by: Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England by Anna Shepherd Andrew Scull Anna Shepherd. Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England. Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 20. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. xi + 228 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-84893-431-3). Its title notwithstanding, Anna Shepherd’s book is not a general history of the asylum in nineteenth-century England. Instead, …

  • Contending Professions

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEScience in Context2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 43

    ArgumentThis paper examines the intersecting histories of psychiatry and psychology (particularly in its clinical guise) in the United States from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. It suggests that there have been three major shifts in the ideological and intellectual orientation of the "psy complex." The first period sees the dominance of the asylum in the provision of mental health care, with psychology, once it emerges …

  • Some reflections on madness and culture in the post-war world

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2014

    This article examines the treatment of madness as a theme in drama, opera and films, concentrating its attention for the most part on the period between World War II and the 1980s. These were the years in which psychoanalysis dominated psychiatry in the USA, and so Freud’s influence in the broader culture forms the central though not the sole focus of the analysis

  • Durkheim and the Law

    Open AccessSteven Lukes, Andrew ScullBOOKDurkheim and the Law2013

  • American Madness

    Andrew ScullARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    Richard Noll's American Madness is an important book that deserves a wide readership among those interested in understanding the development of American psychiatry between 1896 and the 1930s. His title is slightly misleading in that he examines the movement of not just dementia praecox but also of schizophrenia from Europe to the United States and the ways those two diagnostic labels were profoundly transformed and “Americanized” in the process. …

  • The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA Part 2

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2011

    The second of two linked papers examining the interactions of psychiatry and the social sciences since World War II examines the role of NIMH on these disciplines. It analyses the effects of the prominence and the decline of psychoanalysis, and the impact of the psychotropic drugs revolution and the associated rise of biological psychiatry on relations between psychiatry and clinical psychology; and it explores the changing relationships between …

  • The peculiarities of the Scots? Scottish influences on the development of English psychiatry, 1700–1980

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2011

    This paper examines the multiple influences Scottish psychiatrists have exercised over the shape of English responses to mental illness during nearly three centuries, beginning with George Cheyne and ending with R.D. Laing. Scotland’s distinctive response to mental illness was largely ignored until recently, as though it had simply followed the English path. The neglect has begun to be rectified, but the powerful influence of the Scots on develop…

  • The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA. Part 1

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2011

    This paper examines the impact of World War II and its aftermath on the mental health sector, and traces the resulting transformations in US psychiatry and psychology. Focusing on the years between 1940 and 1970, it analyses the growing federal role in funding training and research in the mental health sector, the dominance of psychoanalysis within psychiatry in these years, and the parallel changes that occurred in both academic and clinical psy…

  • Paul Chambers, Bedlam

    Andrew ScullARTICLESocial History of Medicine2010

    Paul Chambers' new book on Bedlam (Bethlem Hospital) is self-consciously presented as a work of popular non-fiction. As such, he indicates that his primary aim is ‘to keep the story flowing smoothly, so the main body of the text is largely devoid of complex explanations and overlong discussions’ (p. 10). Since the 16 pages of endnotes simply contain references to the existing publications with very little in the way of extended commentary, the ma…

  • Psychiatry and the Social Sciences, 1940-2009

    Andrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Political Economy2010Citada por: 2Referencias: 24

    This paper examines the changing relationship between psychiatry and three major social sciences, psychology, sociology, and economics, in the period between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the twentieth century. That interaction varied across the different disciplines and over time. The most sustained impact was on the discipline of psychology, where size and the shape of the discipline were radically transformed, beginning w…

  • Psychiatry and Empire

    Andrew ScullARTICLESocial History of Medicine2008

    The exploration of colonial psychiatry, pioneered by such scholars as Waltraud Ernst and Jonathan Sadowsky, has become a growth industry these days. Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan have edited a volume that derives, with some additions, from a weekly seminar series held at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford in 2002. The varied papers that form the individual chapters encompass aspects of the French, Dutch, and British colonial…

  • Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody

    Andrew T Scull, Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    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…

  • Presumed curable

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2006

  • The Insanity of Place

    Open AccessAndrew ScullARTICLEHistory of Psychiatry2004

    This paper uses English examples to scrutinize the complex interrelations of insanity and place over the past three centuries, taking as its starting point the late Erving Goffman’s paper of the same title. From eighteenth-century Bedlam and the emerging trade in lunacy, through the county asylums and licensed madhouses of the nineteenth century to the return of the mentally ill to the ‘community’ in the last half of the twentieth century, the pl…

  • The Borderland of Imbecility

    Andrew T Scull, Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    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

    Andrew T Scull, Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    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…

  • "Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody"

    Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    Leonard Smith's new book is clearly a labor of love. Bereft of the security of paid academic employment, he has nonetheless spent many years burrowing into archives spanning the length and breadth of England to reexamine the history of public lunatic asylums in the first half of the nineteenth century. This was a period characterized by what he terms "a mixed economy of care" (p. 12). The County Asylums Act of 1808 was a piece of permissive legis…

  • Patterns of Madness in the Eighteenth Century

    Andrew ScullARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    Any annotated selection of texts dealing with the history of madness invites comparison with Hunter and Macalpine's Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, first published a quarter century ago. 1 Allan Ingram's new book covers a somewhat briefer temporal swath, though not so limited a territory as its title might suggest. (Of his forty-five selections from thirty-eight different authors, five date from the second half of the seventeenth century, and …