Mad in America
Subtitle: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Published: December 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780738203850
Subjects: Mental health services; Psychiatry; Treatment; Mentally ill; Psychology; Schizophrenia; USA; United States; History; Science; Medicine; Mental Illness; Care
First sentence: A VISITOR TO THE "mad" wards of Pennsylvania Hospital at the turn of the nineteenth century would have found the halls astir with an air of reform.