Cover of Madhouse

Madhouse

by Andrew T. Scull

2005 376 pages eng

"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…

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