Mad science : psychiatric coercion, diagnosis, and drugs / Stuart A. Kirk, Tomi Gomory, & David Cohen.

  • Kirk, Stuart A., 1945-
Date:
[2013], ©2013
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New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Transaction Publishers, [2013], ©2013.

Physical description

xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Illusions of psychiatric progress -- The history and historians of madness -- The therapeutic coercion of the mad in the community -- And DSM said : let there be disorder -- The failure of descriptive diagnosis -- Dancing with drugs -- From drugs to medications and back -- Anatomy of mad science.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.Q.6
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  • 9781412849760
  • 1412849764