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Dec 1, 2023 · By broadly covering two-plus centuries, Scull shatters the illusion that the uncertainty, unfounded claims, and ethical comprises of psychiatry have been left in the past. Scull repudiates teleological narratives of mental health and medicine, instead highlighting the dangers of assuming progress with the application of technology and science.
May 17, 2022 · A Telegraph Book of the Year. 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.
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Desperate Remedies is a harrowing, heart-pounding history that will leave you gasping. Andrew Scull vividly transports us to the dismal asylums and experimental operating rooms that haunt psychiatry’s past and then links that tragic era with our prescription-happy present.
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Scull maps out the progression of the treatment of mental disorders, beginning in the 19th century with state asylums or state hospitals whose inhabitants, “poor and the friendless”, reached a population of half a million by 1950. The wealthy, on the other hand, got treated at home with often dangerous substances such as morphine and strychnine. Sc...
Initial reaction was positive amongst legacy media. Richard McNally called the book "an indisputable masterpiece" in the Wall Street Journal. Rebecca Lawrence of the Guardiansaid it was, "meticulously researched and beautifully written, and even funny at times, despite the harrowing content."
May 17, 2022 · Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Scull. 4.09. 327 ratings62 reviews. 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.
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May 17, 2022 · Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness. Andrew Scull. Harvard University Press, May 17, 2022 - Medical - 496 pages. A Telegraph Book of the YearA Washington...
Dec 1, 2022 · Article. Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, by Andrew Scull. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022. Published: 01 December 2022. Volume 44 , pages 125–127, ( 2023 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Guy Fredrick Glass. 281 Accesses. Explore all metrics.
