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Moral treatment reconsidered: some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Andrew T. Scull
Andrew T. Scull*
Affiliation:
Sociology Department, University of California at San Diego, USA
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Andrew Scull, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
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Synopsis

A reappraisal is offered of the precise sense in which the introduction of moral treats ment at the end of the eighteenth century marked a decisive shift in our characteristic ways of responding to and coping with the mentally disturbed. Some connections are explored between this new approach to the ‘mad’ and larger social movements and processes.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 421 - 428
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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