Author: Massachusetts. State Board of InsanityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Collected Contributions from the State Board of Insanity and the State Institutions for Mental Disease and Defect, Massachusetts
Author: Collected Contributions from the State Board of Insanity and the State Institutions for Mental Disease and Defect
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of InsanityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas J. HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas Johnston HomerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
American Madness
Author: Richard NollPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674062655
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else? In vivid detail, Richard Noll describes how the discovery of this mysterious disorder gave hope to the overworked asylum doctors that they could at last explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients surrounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how asylum physicians fought for their own respectability. If what they were observing was a disease, then this biological reality was amenable to scientific research. In the early twentieth century, dementia praecox was psychiatry’s key into an increasingly science-focused medical profession. But for the moment, nothing could be done to help the sufferers. When the concept of schizophrenia offered a fresh understanding of this disorder, and hope for a cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dramatic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders.
Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Program [of The] Annual Meeting
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Author: American Medico-Psychological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Municipal Reference Library Notes
Author: New York Public Library. Municipal Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.