- Psychiatry, Career in psychiatry, History, Medical ethics
"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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Andrew T. Scull
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 380
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300107296
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