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Mad in America Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Hardcover - 2001
by Whitaker, Robert
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A VISITOR TO THE "mad" wards of Pennsylvania Hospital at the turn of the nineteenth century would have found the halls astir with an air of reform.
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- Title Mad in America Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
- Author Whitaker, Robert
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 304
- Language ENG
- Publisher Perseus Publishing, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date December 24, 2001
- ISBN 9780738203850
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