Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / Robert Whitaker.
Whitaker, Robert.
2002
RC514 .W44 2002b (Mapit)
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Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / Robert Whitaker.
Author
Whitaker, Robert.
ISBN
0738207993 (pbk.)
9780738207995 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., c2002 (2003 printing).
Language
English
Description
xviii, 334 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
RC514 .W44 2002b
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.2/6
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.
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pt. 1. The original Bedlam (1750-1900). 1. Bedlam in medicine
2. The healing hand of kindness
pt. 2. The darkest era (1900-1950). 3. Unfit to breed
4. Too much intelligence
5. Brain damage as miracle therapy
pt. 3. 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
pt. 4. Mad medicine today (1990s-present). 11. Not so atypical.

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