"Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!"

-- Dirk Wittenborn

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.”
“The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.
“There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.”
“People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.”
“I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.”
“Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the path to improving living standards that we'd expect in an economy posting strong productivity gains.”
“It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.”

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