Andrew Scull
Sociologist and historian of psychiatry
Andrew Scull is a British-born sociologist who studies the social history of medicine and psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego.
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American Born 1947 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
About Andrew Scull
Andrew T. Scull was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and then at Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate in 1974. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1973 and joined the University of California, San Diego in 1978. He became a full professor there in 1982 and a Distinguished Professor in 1994. He has been awarded the Roy Porter Medal, which recognizes lifetime contributions to the history of medicine. His books include Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity. Among his other titles are Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, as well as Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine.