Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. 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 ar
Must We Divide History Into Periods? (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)
Jacques Le Goff argues that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. | Author: Jacques Le Goff| Publisher: Columbia University Press| Publication Date: May 16, 2017| Number of Pages
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