Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull

Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

Andrew Scull

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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 m...

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