| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. By Andrew Scull. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xiv, 360 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-10729-3.)

With extraordinary intensity, even ferocity, historians of psychiatry often engage contemporary debates in their scholarly works. Andrew Scull is a case in point. Madhouse is his latest sally against both somatic approaches to mental illness and historians who evidence sympathy for twentieth-century psychiatrists. In lively prose, Scull retells the sensational story of Henry Cotton, the head of the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey from 1907 to 1930. Trained by Adolf Meyer, Cotton belonged to a generation of psychiatrists determined to move their specialty out of the asylum and into the medical mainstream. Convinced that mental illnesses were rooted in neuropathology and inspired by recent breakthroughs in bacteriology, they aggressively pursued a variety of biomedical therapies.

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