The manufacture of madness
Subtitle: a comparative study of the Inquisition and the mental health movement
By: [by] Thomas S. Szasz.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Mental illness -- History.
Description: Intends to show that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 351-370.