Madness: A Brief History
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417626267 (1417626267)
Publish date: March 1st 2003
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Brain
Erudite without being pretentious. I admire Porter for his attempts to make comprehensible a field of study which has often been dominated by scholars shouting very loudly but very incoherently. That said, I did detect a progressivist bias, as well as a hostility to some of Foucault's ideas. He's en...
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