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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part28.utf8:241907715:1624
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01624cam a22002654a 4500
001 2001098251
003 DLC
005 20140521075625.0
008 011108s2002 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001098251
020 $a0738203858
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aRC514$b.W44 2002
100 1 $aWhitaker, Robert.
245 10 $aMad in America :$bbad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill /$cRobert Whitaker.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bPerseus Pub.,$cc2002.
300 $axviii, 334 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface xiii -- Acknowledgments xvii -- Part One: The Original Bedlam (1750-1900) -- 1 Bedlam in Medicine 3 -- 2 The Healing Hand of Kindness 19 -- Part Two: The Darkest Era (1900-1950) -- 3 Unfit to Breed 41 -- 4 Too Much Intelligence 73 -- 5 Brain Damage as Miracle Therapy 107 -- Part Three: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s) -- 6 Modem-Day Alchemy 141 -- 7 The Patients' Reality 161 -- 8 The Story We Told Ourselves 195 -- 9 Shame of a Nation 211 -- 10 The Nuremberg Code Doesn't Apply Here 233 -- Part Four: Mad Medicine Today (1990s-Present) -- 11 Not So Atypical 253 -- Epilogue 287 -- Notes 293 -- Index 323.
650 0 $aSchizophrenia$xTreatment$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMentally ill$xCare$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001098251.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2001098251-d.html