Mental ills and bodily cures: psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century
Auteur :
Braslow, Joel
Éditeur :
University of California Press
ISBN :
9780520205475
Date de publication :
6 oct. 1997
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
590 g
Format :
Cloth over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.