Name: Medicine and Society (en Inglés)
Price: 371.88 PEN
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Author: Joel Braslow
ISBN: 9780520205475

portada Medicine and Society (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Joel Braslow

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

262

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0520205472

ISBN13

9780520205475

N° edición

Categorías

Sistemas y servicios de la salud

Medicine and Society (en Inglés)

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Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. Hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy―these were among the drastic somatic treatments used in these hospitals.By allowing the would-be healers and those in psychological and physical distress to speak for themselves, Braslow captures the intense and emotional interplay surrounding these therapies. His investigation combines revealing clinical detail with the immediacy of "being there" in the institutional setting while decisions are made, procedures undertaken, and results observed by all those involved. We learn how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry. The book will interest historians of medicine, practicing psychiatrists, and everyone who knows or has seen what it's like to be in mental distress.