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020805
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New York, Basic Books, 2003.
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xviii, 334pBlack spine
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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 deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker’s most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.
A haunting, deeply compassionate book, now revised with a new introduction — 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.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Part one: The original Bedlam (1750-1900)
1. Bedlam in medicine
2. The healing hand of kindness
Part two: The darkest era (1900-1950)
3. Unfit to breed
4. Too much intelligence
5. Brain damage as miracle therapy
Part three: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s)
6. Modern-day alchemy
7. The patient's reality
8. The story we told ourselves
9. Shame of a nation
10. The Nuremberg code doesn't apply here
Part four: Mad medicine today (1990s-Present)
11. Not so atypical
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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9780738207995 Pb.
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| I01915 | 362.260783/WHI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
016698
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London, Picador, 2011.
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xiii, 257pBlue Spine
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Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre world of neurological disorders. Looks at what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist. This work shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be. It is suitable for those who have felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it.
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9780330523622 Pb.
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| I00856 | 616.089/SAC | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019959
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New York, Harper Perennial, 2010.
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xxx, 329pOrange and red spine
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The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, this classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behaviour as mental illness, psychiatrists absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life.
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9780061771224 Pb.
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| I01684 | 616.8907/SZA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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