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020 $a0300107293 (cl. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aRC443$b.S395 2005
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100 1 $aScull, Andrew,$d1946-
245 10 $aMadhouse :$ba tragic tale of megalomania and modern medicine /$cAndrew Scull.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axiii, 360 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [300]-349) and index.
520 1 $a"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. Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, launched a ruthless campaign to "eliminate the perils of pus infection." Teeth were pulled, tonsils excised, stomachs, spleens, colons, and uteruses were all sacrificed in the assault on "focal sepsis."" "Many patients did not survive Cotton's surgeries; thousands more were left mangled and maimed. Cotton's work was controversial, yet none of his colleagues questioned his experimental practices. Subsequent historians and psychiatrists, too, have ignored the events that cast doubt on their favourite narratives of scientific and humanitarian progress." "Andrew Scull exposes the full, frightening story of madness among the mad-doctors. Drawing on a wealth of documents and interviews, he reconstructs a nightmarish, cautionary chapter in modern psychiatry, when professionals failed to police themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aCotton, Henry Aloysius.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004009685
650 0 $aPsychiatry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108381
650 00 $aPsychiatry$zUnited States$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028567.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hRC443$i.S395 2005