Mad in America : bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill - Whitaker, Robert (Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., 2002)
Machine generated contents note: Preface xiii -- Acknowledgments xvii -- Part One: The Original Bedlam (1750-1900) -- 1 Bedlam in Medicine 3 -- 2 The Healing Hand of Kindness 19 -- Part Two: The Darkest Era (1900-1950) -- 3 Unfit to Breed 41 -- 4 Too Much Intelligence 73 -- 5 Brain Damage as Miracle Therapy 107 -- Part Three: Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s) -- 6 Modem-Day Alchemy 141 -- 7 The Patients' Reality 161 -- 8 The Story We Told Ourselves 195 -- 9 Shame of a Nation 211 -- 10 The Nuremberg Code Doesn't Apply Here 233 -- Part Four: Mad Medicine Today (1990s-Present) -- 11 Not So Atypical 253 -- Epilogue 287 -- Notes 293 -- Index 323.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-322) and index.
Keywords: Mentally ill -- Care -- History -- United States; Schizophrenia -- Treatment -- History -- United States