Madness Is Civilization: When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

by Michael E. Staub

Book Overview

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social conditions, psychiatrists were agents of repression, asylums were gulags for society's undesirables, and mental illness was a concept with no medical basis.

Madness Is Civilization explores...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621463X
• ISBN13: 9780226214634
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"