Madness and Method
Mark Philp, 3 April 1986
The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry Vol. I: People and Ideas, Vol. II: Institutions and Society
edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd.
Tavistock, 316 pp., £19.95, November 1985,0 422 79430 9 Show More
edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd.
Tavistock, 316 pp., £19.95, November 1985,
Madness, Morality and Medicine: A Study of the York Retreat 1796-1914
by Anne Digby.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £27.50, October 1985,0 521 26067 1 Show More
by Anne Digby.
Cambridge, 323 pp., £27.50, October 1985,
“... Digby’s monograph on the history of the York Retreat, and the two volumes of essays edited by Bynum, Porter and Shepherd, pay eloquent testimony to the transformation effected in the history of psychiatry over the last twenty or thirty years. The works of Foucault, Erving Goffman, Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing, and more recently the contributions of Andrew ... ”
