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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Madness has been seen as arising either from divinity or from the human body itself.
Chapter 3: Arabic medicine absorbed knowledge and subsequently shaped numerous other cultures deeply.
Chapter 4: For centuries, conceptions of madness simultaneously influenced and were influenced by art, religion, and philosophy across cultures worldwide.
Chapter 5: For centuries, people with mental illness suffered from society’s refusal to compassionately treat them or their conditions properly.
Chapter 6: Hospitals were ill-equipped to meet the needs of patients with mental illness.
Chapter 7: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, “madness” was often consigned to the much-feared asylum system.
Chapter 8: Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, madness came to be viewed as many distinct illnesses with diverse root causes.
Chapter 9: Freud and World War I both left enduring marks on the history of madness.
Chapter 10: In the twentieth century, asylums finally closed and humane treatments were established.
Description
Madness in Civilization (2015) examines the fascinating and often disturbing history of how people with mental illness were categorized as “mad” and pushed to the fringes of society. It traces the history of “madness” from the biblical story of King Saul to the modern classifications of mental illness and how it’s now categorized and treated.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- Students of medicine
- People who want to understand the history of mental illness