Mad In America
Subtitle: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Publisher: Perseus Publishing
Published: April 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780738207995
Subjects: History of medicine; Mental health services; Psychiatry; Social history; Schizophrenia; Mental Illness; Psychology; USA; Treatment; History; Science; General; Care; Mentally ill; United States
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.