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Mad in America

Robert Whitaker

"Medical journalist Robert Whitaker ... traces the treatment of mental illness through the use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s, to the electroshock therapy of the 1950s, to what is perhaps his most damning revelation: drug companies in ...

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

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Mad in America. Cattiva scienza, cattiva medicina e maltrattamento dei malati mentali

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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

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(Italiano) Mad in America (Bios-Psichè) (Italian Edition)

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