The manufacture of madness : a comparitive study of the inquisition and the mental health movement / Thomas S. Szasz.
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TextPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1997.Edition: [New ed.] / with a new preface by the authorDescription: xxxi, 383p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780815604617 (pbk.) :
- 0815604610 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Social control
- Psychiatry -- Political aspects
- Mental illness -- History
- Mental health -- Political aspects
- Antipsychiatry
- Social norms
- Psychiatry
- Human rights, civil rights
- Anthropology
- Abnormal psychology
- Health and Wellbeing
- Mental Disorders -- history
- Psychology, Social
- Public Policy
- Mental Health Services -- history
- 362.2042209
- RC438 .S92 1997
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 362.2042209 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 126357 |
Previous ed.: New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-370) and index.
Part 1: The Inquisition and Institutional Psychiatry:- 1. Society\'s internal enemies and protectors--2. The malefactor identified--3. The malefactor authenticated--4. The defense of the dominant ethic--5. The witch a mental patient--6. The witch as healer--7. The witch as Scapegoat--8. The myths of withcraft and mental illness--Part11: The manufacture of madness:-9. The new manufacturer - Benjamin Rush, the Father of american psychiatry--10. The product conversion - from Heresy to Illness--11. The New Product - Masturbatory Insanity--12. The manufacture of medical stigma--13. The model psychiatric Scapegoat - the homosexual--14. The expulsion of evil--15. The struggle for self-esteem.