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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century - Medicine and Society Joel Braslow
Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century - Medicine and Society
Joel Braslow
Describes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry.
262 pages, 18
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 6, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520205475 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 262 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 25 mm · 590 g |