Mad in America : Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Whitaker, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2010.
Edición:Rev. pbk.
Temas:
Schizophrenia > Treatment > United States > History.
Mentally ill > Care > United States > History.
Mental Health Services > history
History, Modern 1601-
Mental Disorders > history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Schizophrénie > Traitement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Mentally ill > Care
Schizophrenia > Treatment
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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