Mad in America bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill

Mad in America bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill /

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"Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are dee...

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Main Author: Whitaker, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2010.
Edition:Rev. pbk.
Subjects:
Schizophrenia > Treatment > United States > History.
Mentally ill > Care > United States > History.
Medicine.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the revised edition
  • pt. 1. The original Bedlam. Bedlam in medicine
  • The healing hand of kindness
  • pt. 2. The darkest era. Unfit to breed
  • Too much intelligence
  • Brain damage as miracle therapy
  • pt. 3. Back to Bedlam. Modern-day alchemy
  • The patient's reality
  • The story we told ourselves
  • Shame of a nation
  • The Nuremberg Code doesn't apply here
  • pt. 4. Mad medicine today. Not so atypical
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword to the revised edition.

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