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Summary: Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 WHIWhitaker, Robert.
Contents: pt. 1. Original Bedlam (1750-1900). 1. Bedlam in medicine -- 2. Healing hand of kindness -- pt. 2. Darkest era (1900-1950). 3. Unfit to breed -- 4. Too much intelligence -- 5. Brain damage as miracle therapy -- pt. 3. Back to Bedlam (1950-1990s). 6. Modern-day alchemy -- 7. Patients' reality -- 8. Story we told ourselves -- 9. Shame of a nation -- 10. Nuremberg Code doesn't apply here -- pt. 4....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 WHIWhitaker, Robert.
Contents: A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was ... and wasn't told -- Tallying up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2010