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

Title: Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / Robert Whitaker.
Author: Whitaker, Robert
Publication: New York : Basic Books, 2019.

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Description

xx, 362 pages, portrait; 21 cm.

Summary

"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed research to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were moore effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects. A haunting, deeply compassionate book updated to address the latest medical treatments and trends, Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we value most about the human mind."--Page 4 of cover.

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Genre/Form

History.

Note

Originally published in hardcover by Perseus Publishing in 2002.
"Updated with a new afterword"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface to the Revised edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part one: The original Bedlam (1750-1900) -- Part two: The darkest era (1900-1950) -- Part three: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s) -- Part four: Mad medicine today (1990s-present) -- Afterword to the revised edition.

ISBN

9781541618060
1541618068
9780786723799 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

on1082185697
SCSB-13552335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library