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Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / by Robert Whitaker.
LIBRA RC514 .W44 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitaker, R. H. (Robert H.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schizophrenia--Treatment--United States.
- Schizophrenia.
- Schizophrenia--Treatment.
- United States.
- Schizophrenia--Treatment--United States--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Perseus, [2002]
- Summary:
- Based on exhaustive research culled from old patient medical records, historical accounts, and government documents, this haunting book raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, what it means to be "insane, " and what we value most about the human mind.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Original Bedlam (1750-1900)
- 1 Bedlam in Medicine 3
- 2 The Healing Hand of Kindness 19
- Part 2 The Darkest Era (1900-1950)
- 3 Unfit to Breed 41
- 4 Too Much Intelligence 73
- 5 Brain Damage as Miracle Therapy 107
- Part 3 Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s)
- 6 Modern-Day Alchemy 141
- 7 The Patients' Reality 161
- 8 The Story We Told Ourselves 195
- 9 Shame of a Nation 211
- 10 The Nuremberg Code Doesn't Apply Here 233
- Part 4 Mad Medicine Today (1990s-Present)
- 11 Not So Atypical 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0738203858
- OCLC:
- 48779542
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