Ebook: Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill
Author: Whitaker Robert
- Tags: Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- United States -- History. Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History. Mental Health Services -- United States -- History. History Modern 1601- -- United States. Mental Disorders -- United States -- History. Mentally ill -- Care. Schizophrenia -- Treatment. United States. Geestelijke gezondheidszorg.
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: Cambridge, MA, United States., USA
- Language: English
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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.
Abstract:
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 Read more...
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