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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.
17 de mai. de 2022 · A Telegraph Book of the Year. 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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Scull maps out the progression of the treatment of mental disorders, beginning in the 19th century with state asylums or state hospitals whose inhabitants, “poor and the friendless”, reached a population of half a million by 1950. The wealthy, on the other hand, got treated at home with often dangerous substances such as morphine and strychnine. Sc...
Initial reaction was positive amongst legacy media. Richard McNally called the book "an indisputable masterpiece" in the Wall Street Journal. Rebecca Lawrence of the Guardiansaid it was, "meticulously researched and beautifully written, and even funny at times, despite the harrowing content."
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1 de dez. de 2022 · Home. Journal of Medical Humanities. Article. 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.
17 de mai. de 2022 · Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Scull. Harvard University Press, May 17, 2022 - Medical - 496 pages. A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington...
