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ID: 790699
Title: Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Author: Robert Whitaker
Narrator: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:29:26
Language: English
Release date: 08-27-24
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health
Summary:
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through 'cures' that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery
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, 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.
A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of 'insanity,' and what we value most about the human mind.
Contact: [email protected]
ID: 790699
Title: Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Author: Robert Whitaker
Narrator: Chris Kayser, Timothy Andrés Pabon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:29:26
Language: English
Release date: 08-27-24
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health
Summary:
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through 'cures' that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery
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, 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.
A haunting, deeply compassionate book -- updated with a new introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments and trends -- Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of 'insanity,' and what we value most about the human mind.
Contact: [email protected]
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