The Invisible Plague
Subtitle: The Rise of mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: January 10, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780813530031
Subjects: Abnormal psychology; History Of Medicine; History of specific subjects; Psychiatry; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Mental Disorders; Psychology; Public Health; Medical; Canada; England; Ireland; USA; Mental Illness; 19th century; 18th century; History; Psychiatric epidemiology
First sentence: Some epidemics are obvious.
Description: Examines the records on insanity in England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States over a 250-year period, concluding, through quantitative and qualitative evidence, that insanity is an unrecognized, modern-day plague.