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2 days ago · Mad in America is a book that challenges the conventional narrative of psychiatric progress and exposes the harms of antipsychotic drugs. It covers the history of moral therapy, eugenics, shock therapy, lobotomy, and modern psychopharmacology from colonial times to today.
May 25, 2010 · In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics in the United States fare worse than those in poor countries, and quite possibly worse than asylum patients did in the early nineteenth century. Indeed, Whitaker argues, modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new ...
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- 2002
- Robert Whitaker
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker, in which the author examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past and present psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly antipsychotics.
- Robert Whitaker
- 2002
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Sep 10, 2019 · 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...
- revised
- Robert Whitaker
- Basic Books, 2019
Sep 10, 2019 · 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.
- Revised ed.
- 09/10/2019
- 9781.5B
- Basic Books
Dec 30, 2014 · 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.
- Robert Whitaker
Sep 10, 2019 · 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.
