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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Madhouse A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Author: Andrew Scull
Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental illnesses were the product of chronic infections that poisoned the brain. Convinced that he had uncovered the single ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300126709
ISBN-10: 0300126700
Publication Date: 9/4/2007
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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What promised to be an exciting and fascinating look into Psychiatry's roots proved to be somewhat dry and dense read.


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