Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / Robert Whitaker.
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TextPublication details: Reading, Mass. ; Oxford : Perseus, 2003.Description: 448 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780738207995 (pbk.) :
- 0738207993
- Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History
- Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- United States -- History
- Schizophrenia -- United States -- Treatment
- Schizophrenia -- United States -- Treatment -- History
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social & cultural history
- Mental health services
- History of medicine
- Psychiatry
- 362.26 WHI
- RC514
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 362.26 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 127110 | ||
| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 362.26 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 127109 |
Originally published: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.
Part 1: The original bedlam (1750-1900):- 1. Bedlam in medicine--2. The healing hand of kindness--Part 11: The darkest era (1900-1950):- 3. Unfit to breed--4. Too much intelligence--5. Brain damage as miracle therapy--Part 111: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s):- 6. Modern-day alchemy--7. The patients\' reality--8. The story we told ourselves--9. Shame of a nation--10. The Nuremberg code doesn\'t apply here--Part IV: Mad medicine today (1990s-Present):- 11. Not so atypical--Epilogue.
Tracing over three centuries of cures for madness, Robert Whitaker here shows how medical therapies have been used to silence patients and dull their minds, deepening their suffering and impairing their hope of recovery.