Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

by Andrew Scull

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A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from the mental hospital to the brain lab--that reveals the devastating treatments doctors have inflicted on their patients (especially women) in the name of science and questions our massive reliance on meds.

For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once called "madness"--have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674265106

ISBN13:9780674265103

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:512 Pages

Weight:1.74 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 8.7"

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