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Author |
: Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages |
: 406 |
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: 1889 |
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: HARVARD:HWKAFS |
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: 4/5 (FS Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies by : Thomas Hardy
Author |
: Andrew Scull |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2022-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674276468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674276469 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies by : Andrew Scull
A Telegraph Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Work A Times Book of the Year A Hughes Award Finalist “An indisputable masterpiece...comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.” —Wall Street Journal “Compulsively readable...Scull has joined his wide-ranging reporting and research with a humane perspective on matters that many of us continue to look away from.” —Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic “I would recommend this fascinating, alarming, and alerting book to anybody. For anyone referred to a psychiatrist it is surely essential.” —The Spectator “Meticulously researched and beautifully written, and even funny at times.” —The Guardian “Brimming with wisdom and brio, this masterful work spans the history of psychiatry. Exceedingly well-researched, wide-ranging, provocative in its conclusions, and magically compact, it is riveting from start to finish. Mark my words, Desperate Remedies will soon be a classic.” —Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire From the birth of the asylum to the latest drug trials, Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists and cognitive behavioral therapists, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. One of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today, Andrew Scull carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals to explain why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street, and why victims of experimental therapies were so often women. He reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, while deliberately concealing the side effects of drugs now routinely prescribed from childhood through senescence. Carefully researched and compulsively readable, this passionate and compassionate account of America’s long battle with mental illness challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about how we think and feel.
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: Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2021-06-03 |
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: 9798514397761 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies Annotated by : Thomas Hardy
Described by Hardy as a tale of "mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity", his first published novel violated the literary decorum of its day with blackmail, murder, and romance. It relates the story of Cytherea, a maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe, and the man she loves, Edward Springrove. Upon discovering that Edward is already engaged, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward, Manston.
Author |
: Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages |
: 506 |
Release |
: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015019109704 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies by : Thomas Hardy
Author |
: Les Conrad |
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Total Pages |
: 336 |
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: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000112317825 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies by : Les Conrad
Author |
: Andrew Scull |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2022-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674265103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674265106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desperate Remedies by : Andrew Scull
A sweeping history of American psychiatry--from the mental hospital to the brain lab--that reveals the devastating treatments doctors have inflicted on their patients (especially women) in the name of science and questions our massive reliance on meds. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind--the sorts of things that were once called "madness"--have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America's quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals to explain why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street and why so many of those whose bodies were experimented on were women. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, leading to an epidemic of over-prescribing while deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America's long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
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: Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages |
: 502 |
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: 1905 |
ISBN-10 |
: SRLF:AX0003479862 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Works: Desperate remedies by : Thomas Hardy
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: Elliot S. Valenstein |
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Total Pages |
: 360 |
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: 1986-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015036213927 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grt & Desperate Cures by : Elliot S. Valenstein
Author |
: Andrew Scull |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 12 |
Release |
: 2015-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691166155 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691166153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Madness in Civilization by : Andrew Scull
Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015.
Author |
: Thomas Morris |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524743703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524743704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth by : Thomas Morris
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its jaw-dropping weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris delivers one of the most remarkable, cringe-inducing collections of stories ever assembled. Witness Mysterious Illnesses (such as the Rhode Island woman who peed through her nose), Horrifying Operations (1781: A French soldier in India operates on his own bladder stone), Tall Tales (like the "amphibious infant" of Chicago, a baby that could apparently swim underwater for half an hour), Unfortunate Predicaments (such as that of the boy who honked like a goose after inhaling a bird's larynx), and a plethora of other marvels. Beyond a series of anecdotes, these painfully amusing stories reveal a great deal about the evolution of modern medicine. Some show the medical profession hopeless in the face of ailments that today would be quickly banished by modern drugs; but others are heartening tales of recovery against the odds, patients saved from death by the devotion or ingenuity of a conscientious doctor. However embarrassing the ailment or ludicrous the treatment, every case in The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth tells us something about the knowledge (and ignorance) of an earlier age, along with the sheer resilience of human life.