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Author Whitaker, Robert.

Title Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill / Robert Whitaker.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : Perseus Pub., [2002]
©2002

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 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  362.21 WHI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.2 WHI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  616.89 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.2 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  362.2 WHI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.89 W585    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.2 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  362.2 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.2 WH    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-322) and index.
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.
Contents 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.
Subject Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
Mentally ill -- Care -- United States -- History.
Mental Health Services -- history -- United States.
History, Modern 1601- -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0738203858
9780738203850
0738207993 paperback
9780738207995 paperback
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