Mad in America Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

Name: Mad in America Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
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ISBN: 9780465020140

ISBN-10: 0465020143

ISBN-13: 9780465020140

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Whitaker

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Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. InMad 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 Americaexamines 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…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface to the Revised Edition


Acknowledgments



The Original Bedlam (1750-1900)



Bedlam in Medicine



The Healing Hand of Kindness



The Darkest Era (1900-1950)



Unfit to Breed



Too Much Intelligence



Brain Damage as Miracle Therapy



Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s)



Modern-Day Alchemy



The Patients' Reality



The Story We Told Ourselves



Shame of a Nation



The Nuremberg Code Doesn't Apply Here



Mad Medicine Today (1990s-Present)



Not So Atypical


Epilogue


Afterword to the Revised Edition


Notes


Index