Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25233
Whitaker, Robert.
--New York, NY:
Crown Publishers
, 2010.
- Call Number
- WM 11 W578a 2010
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 11 W578a 2010
- Author
- Whitaker, Robert
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Date of Publication
- 2010
- Physical Description
- 404 p.
- ISBN
- 9780307452412
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Psychiatry - history - United States
- Psychiatry - ethics - United States
- Mental Disorders - drug therapy - United States
- Mental Disorders - epidemiology - United States
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat21385
Whitaker, Robert.
--Cambridge, MA:
Perseus Books
, 2003.
- Call Number
- WM 203 W578m 2003
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Call Number
- WM 203 W578m 2003
- Author
- Whitaker, Robert
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Publisher
- Perseus Books
- Date of Publication
- 2003
- Physical Description
- xviii, 334 p.
- ISBN
- 0738207993
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Contents
- Part One: The Original Bedlam (1750-1900) -- 1. Bedlam in Medicine 3 -- 2. The Healing Hand of Kindness -- Part Two: The Darkest Era (1900-1950) -- 3. Unfit to Breed -- 4. Too Much Intelligence -- 5. Brain Damage as Miracle Therapy -- Part Three: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s) -- 6. Modem-Day Alchemy -- 7. The Patients' Reality -- 8. The Story We Told Ourselves -- 9. Shame of a Nation -- 10. The Nuremberg Code Doesn't Apply Here -- Part Four: Mad Medicine Today (1990s-Present) -- 11. Not So Atypical.
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Nova Scotia Hospital
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
