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Mad in America

Paperback • 2010 • English

Mad in America

By Robert Whitaker

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About the book

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America , medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, ...Show more

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9780465020140

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Mad in America

Format

Paperback

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