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Social History of Medicine 1993 6(1):3-23; doi:10.1093/sochis/6.1.3
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Museums of Madness Revisited

ANDREW SCULL*

* Department of Sociology, University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla CA 92093–0102, USA. This paper was presented as the Presidential address to the Society for the Social History of Medicine, All Souls College, Oxford, 4 July 1992


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SUMMARY This paper reviews the development of the historiography of madness in eighteen- and nineteenth-century England over the past fifteen years and traces some of the major controversies that have animated the field during that time. It discusses the implications of this body of work, and of the author's own further researches, for some of the central arguments made in the original edition of Museums of Madness; and suggests which portions of that text he would now modify or retract, and which he still stands behind.

Keywords: madness; psychiatry; insanity; asylums; eighteenth century; nineteenth century; Foucault


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