Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

By
Andrew Scull
Andrew Scull
2022 • 512 pages

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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11 books

Psychiatry

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Desperate Remedies
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Hysteria: The Biography
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Driven to Distraction

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17 books

Mad Studies

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Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Desperate Remedies
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Hysteria: The Biography
Failure to Comply
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

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107 books

Disability Studies

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American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
The Spoon Knife Anthology
Feminist, Queer, Crip
Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
Fit to Be Tied
Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity

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8 books

Mental Illness

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Who Put This Song On?
Fans of the Impossible Life
Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Four weeks, five people
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain