Mad in America Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (9780465020140) Robert Whitaker
Product Details:
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Second Edition edition (May 25, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0465020143
ISBN-13: 978-0465020140
Product Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries google sketchup 8 tutorials pdf. 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 google sketchup 8 tutorials pdf. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs google sketchup 8 tutorials pdf. In what is perhaps Whitaker’s most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects google sketchup 8 tutorials pdf.A haunting, deeply compassionate booknow revised with a new introductionMad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of insanity,” and what we value most about the human mind.
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