Jack Pressman

Last Resort

Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
Herausgeber: Jones, Colin; Rosenberg, Charles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9780521353717
• ISBN-10: 0521353718
• Artikelnr.: 21785145

Inhaltsangabe

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.