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Quite mad

an American pharma memoir

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An edition of Quite mad (2018)

Quite mad

an American pharma memoir

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"Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"--

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English
Pages
295

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Table of Contents

The influence of intervention
The sick role
Nature or nurture
An American diagnosis
Patient history
My voice for their drugs
A female malady
Learned behavior
The world we've made for women
Editing
Molecular myths
Bitter pills
Rebuffed
Delicates
Unbearable weight
Rapture in May
Occam's razor
Compulsion
Moral treatment
Taking up space
Turning around
Is satisfied enough?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295).

Series
Machete, Machete

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/8900973
Library of Congress
RC443 .M66 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 295 pages
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26967047M
Internet Archive
quitemadamerican0000mont
ISBN 10
0814254861
ISBN 13
9780814254868
LCCN
2018009254
OCLC/WorldCat
1026296058

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