Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than
patients in the world's poorest countries. 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 compassionate book-updated with a new
introduction and prologue bringing in the latest medical treatments
and trends-Mad in America raises important questions about our
obligations to the mad, the meaning of "insanity," and what we
value most about the human mind.
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