Last Resort - Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine

Klappentext This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Psychiatry's renaissance; 2. Sufficient promise; 3. Certain benefit; 4. Active treatment; 5. Human salvage; 6. Localized decisions; 7. The politics of precision; 8. Medicine controlled; Epilogue and conclusion; Appendix.

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• Authors: Jack Pressman, Jack D. Pressman, Jack D. (University of California Pressman
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.1998
• EAN: 9780521353717
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35371-7
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General