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In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry.
- Thomas Hardy Hardy
- 1871
17 de mai. de 2022 · 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.
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A comprehensive and critical account of the development and failures of psychiatry in the US since 1820. Scull exposes the abuses, quackery, and controversies that have shaped the treatment of mental illness and challenges the dominance of biological approaches.
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States.
Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
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1 de dez. de 2022 · Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. Published: 01 December 2022. Volume 44 , pages 125–127, ( 2023 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Guy Fredrick Glass. 281 Accesses. Explore all metrics.
26 de nov. de 1993 · A film about desperate people in a town called Hope, who use various schemes to achieve their goals. The film features music, romance, thriller elements and a surreal style.
