Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

Mad in America

Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

By
Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker
2002 • 419 pages

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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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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27 books

Medical Industrial Complex

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The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich
Lactivism
Coming Home
Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience
Inflamed
Pandemic, Inc.
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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9 books

Schizophrenia

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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Schizo
Freaks like us
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Lowboy
Made You Up
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

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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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14 books

History Of Psychology

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

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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