Download or read book The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity written by Andrew Scull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Scull is a big name in the history of medicine, his previous book was reviewed glowingly by Roy Porter There is a growing literature on the history of psychiatry This volume represents an impressively wide range of coverage and will appear to historians and sociologists alike