Rabu, 16 November 2011

Mad in America

Mad in America
Author: Robert Whitaker
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003HO5UW4

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. Download Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker's most damning revelation, Mad in America examines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.A haunting, deeply Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Mad in America medical books pdf for free. A haunting, deeply



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