Andrew Scull

Andrew Scull was educated at Oxford and Princeton, and studied medical history on a post-doctoral fellowship at University College, London. He has held faculty positions at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California at San Diego, where he is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and more than a hundred scholarly articles. He has written regularly for audiences outside the academy, and his work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Madness in Civilization has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Desperate Remedies was listed by the Washington Post as one of the most notable non-fiction books of the year, and it was listed as a book of the year by the (London) Times and the (London) Daily Telegraph.