Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull''s edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors'' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profess...