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  • Madness

    An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment

    de Mary de Young ...
    "Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, it is also socially constructed, culturally represented and socially controlled--all of which make it a topic rife for sociological analysis. Using a range of historical and contemporary textual material, this work exercises the sociological imagination to explore some of the ... Leer más

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  • Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

    de Mary de Young ...
    The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have ... Leer más

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    How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World

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  • My Age of Anxiety

    Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

    de Scott Stossel ...
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  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Leer más

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  • Patient H.M.

    A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets

    de Luke Dittrich ...
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  • Unwell Women

    Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

    A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women’s health—from the earliest medical ideas about women’s illnesses to hormones and autoimmune diseases—brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative.Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a ... Leer más

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  • The Lives They Left Behind

    Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

    The acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten lives“A deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.” —Oliver SacksWhen Willard State Hospital closed its doors in 1995, after operating as one of New York State’s largest mental institutions for over 120 years, a forgotten attic filled with suitcases belonging to former patients ... Leer más

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  • Depression And How To Survive It

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  • Manufacturing Depression

    The Secret History of a Modern Disease

    Am I depressed or just unhappy? In the last two decades, antidepressants have become staples of our medicine cabinets—doctors now write 120 million prescriptions annually, at a cost of more than 10 billion dollars. At the same time, depression rates have skyrocketed; twenty percent of Americans are now expected to suffer from it during their lives. Doctors, and drug companies, claim that this ... Leer más

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  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    de Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Leer más

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    Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

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