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Quite mad : an American pharma memoir / Sarah Fawn Montgomery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montgomery, Sarah Fawn, author.
- Series:
- Machete
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Montgomery, Sarah Fawn.
- Montgomery, Sarah Fawn--Mental health.
- Mental illness--Treatment--United States--History.
- Mental illness.
- Women--Mental health--United States.
- Women.
- Mental health.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Women--Mental health.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The influence of intervention
- The sick role
- Nature or nurture
- An American diagnosis
- Patient history
- My voice for their drugs
- A female malady
- Learned behavior
- The world we've made for women
- Editing
- Molecular myths
- Bitter pills
- Rebuffed
- Delicates
- Unbearable weight
- Rapture in May
- Occam's razor
- Compulsion
- Moral treatment
- Taking up space
- Turning around
- Is satisfied enough?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295).
- ISBN:
- 9780814254868
- 0814254861
- OCLC:
- 1026296058
- Publisher Number:
- 99995375621
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