Last resort: psychosurgery and the limits of medicine
Auteur :
Pressman, Jack D.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521353717
Date de publication :
13 févr. 1998
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 3,2 cm
Poids :
940 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when tens of thousands of Americans were operated on for mental illness. By exploring the history of psychiatry as a discipline and a medical specialty, it explains why so many trusted and caring physicians believed that the procedure benefited their patients.