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portada American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
390
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780674047396
Edition No.
1
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American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox

Richard Noll (Author) · Harvard University Press · Hardcover

American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox - Richard Noll

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Synopsis "American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox "

2012 BMA Medical Book Award, Highly Commended in Psychiatry, British Medical Association2012 Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron, International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social SciencesIn 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else?In vivid detail, Richard Noll describes how the discovery of this mysterious disorder gave hope to the overworked asylum doctors that they could at last explain--though they could not cure--the miserable patients surrounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how asylum physicians fought for their own respectability. If what they were observing was a disease, then this biological reality was amenable to scientific research. In the early twentieth century, dementia praecox was psychiatry's key into an increasingly science-focused medical profession.But for the moment, nothing could be done to help the sufferers. When the concept of schizophrenia offered a fresh understanding of this disorder, and hope for a cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dramatic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today's debates about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders.

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