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Snake pits, talking cures & magic bullets : a history of mental illness

Looks at how the mentally ill have been treated throughout history, focusing on advances made in the 19th and 20th centuries regarding mental hospitals, medications, and social acceptance

Print Book, English, ©2003
Twenty-First Century Books, Brookfield, Conn., ©2003