Andrew Scull, Professor
Ph.D. - Princeton, 1974

Areas of Specialization:
Historical, Psychiatry, Medicine, Social Control, Professions, Theory

Email Address:   ascull@ucsd.edu
Phone number:    (858) 534-0492
Office location:  464 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Biography:

Andy Scull received his B.A. from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Princeton prior to coming to UCSD. His books include Museums of Madness; Decarceration; Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen; Durkheim and the Law (with Steven Lukes); Social Control and the State (with Stanley Cohen); Social Order/Mental Disorder; The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900; and Masters of Bedlam. His articles have appeared in leading journals in a variety of disciplines, including British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological Review; European Journal of Sociology; Medical History. He has held fellowships from (among others) the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Davis Center for Historical Studies, and in 1992-93 was the president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Fall 2007
SOCG 243 - Sociology of Social Control

Winter 2008
SOCC 136B - Sociology of Mental Illness: A Contemporary Approach
SOCC 134A - The Making of Modern Medicine

Books:
*A. Scull: Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1977.

*A. Scull: Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England. London: Allen Lane: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.

*A. Scull: Decarceration: Community Treatment and the Deviant: A Radical View. Second revised and enlarged edition. Oxford: Polity Press/New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1984.

*A. Scull, Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo- American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

*A. Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700-1900, Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993.

*A. Scull, secondary co-authors: C.MacKenzie,and N.Hervey: Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

*A. Scull and J. Andrews (equal co-authors): Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England, Berkeley and London,University of California Press, 2001.

*Andrew Scull and Jonathan Andrews (equal co-authors), Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth Century London. University of California Press, 2003.
 

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