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Surprising ways we handle people with madness with professor Andrew Scull
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When you live in the Bay Area you pass tons of folks who appear to be mad.
Most of us don’t spend enough time focusing on how our culture handles
folks on the spectrum of some level of mental illness. When you think about
it— the range of “madness” ranges from people with very serious mental
illness to people who don’t socially fit in. As you look back across
history, you can see just how we’ve dealt with it, who we’ve blamed for it,
and what crazy treatments we’ve put in place.
Who better to talk about that than someone who studies it for a living.
Andrew Scull, this week’s guest, is exactly that person. As a professor of
Sociology at the University of San Diego, he’s written a ton of books on
this subject over decades.
Most of us don’t spend enough time focusing on how our culture handles
folks on the spectrum of some level of mental illness. When you think about
it— the range of “madness” ranges from people with very serious mental
illness to people who don’t socially fit in. As you look back across
history, you can see just how we’ve dealt with it, who we’ve blamed for it,
and what crazy treatments we’ve put in place.
Who better to talk about that than someone who studies it for a living.
Andrew Scull, this week’s guest, is exactly that person. As a professor of
Sociology at the University of San Diego, he’s written a ton of books on
this subject over decades.
Released:
Feb 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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