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67 produkter
From Paralysis to Fatigue
A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
Häftad, 1993
250 kr
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This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent …
Endocrine Psychiatry
Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
Inbunden, 2010
1249 kr
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The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease's link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine …
History of Psychiatry
From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
Häftad, 1998
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
420 kr
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"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline …
Shock Therapy
A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
Av Edward Shorter, David Healy
Häftad, 2013
477 kr
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Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool, however, it continues to be shrouded by a longstanding negative public image, not least due to films such as the classic One Flew over the Cuckoo's …
The Madness of Fear
A History of Catatonia
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
959 kr
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What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing …
Psychotic Depression
Av Conrad M. Swartz, Edward Shorter
Häftad, 2012
1291 kr
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Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition along the spectrum of depressive disorders. It can manifest itself in many ways and often induces very violent and suicidal behavior. This book aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe their observations of psychotic …
Before Prozac
The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
Inbunden, 2008
846 kr
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Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don't work are used to treat diseases that don't exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle …
How Everyone Became Depressed
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
Inbunden, 2013
785 kr
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This book argues that psychiatry's love affair with the diagnosis of depression has become a death grip. Depression is a real illness, especially in its melancholic form. But most patients who get the diagnosis of 'depression' are also anxious, fatigued, unable to sleep, have all kinds of physical …
Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
E-bok, 2005
793 kr
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This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international …
Before Prozac
The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
E-bok, 2008
510 kr
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Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don''t work are used to treat diseases that don''t exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle …
Endocrine Psychiatry
Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
E-bok, 2010
793 kr
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The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease''s link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine …
Madness of Fear
A History of Catatonia
E-bok, 2018
510 kr
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What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing …
Madness of Fear
A History of Catatonia
E-bok, 2018
510 kr
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What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing …
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Inbunden, 2005
1138 kr
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This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international …
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
Häftad, 2026
827 kr
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The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed historian Edward Shorter argues that there has been a recent fall, as the field has seen its drug offerings impoverished …
Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
E-bok, 2021
491 kr
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Th e Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed historian Edward Shorter argues that there has been a recent fall, as the field has seen its drug offerings impoverished …
Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
E-bok, 2021
491 kr
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Th e Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed historian Edward Shorter argues that there has been a recent fall, as the field has seen its drug offerings impoverished …
Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
E-bok, 2005
793 kr
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This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international …
Before Prozac
The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
E-bok, 2008
510 kr
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Psychiatry today is a barren tundra, writes medical historian Edward Shorter, where drugs that don''t work are used to treat diseases that don''t exist. In this provocative volume, Shorter illuminates this dismal landscape, in a revealing account of why psychiatry is "losing ground" in the struggle …
Endocrine Psychiatry
Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
E-bok, 2010
793 kr
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The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease''s link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine …
How Everyone Became Depressed
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
E-bok, 2013
491 kr
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About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That''s despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they''re not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term …
How Everyone Became Depressed
The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
E-bok, 2013
491 kr
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About one American in five receives a diagnosis of major depression over the course of a lifetime. That''s despite the fact that many such patients have no mood disorder; they''re not sad, but suffer from anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, or a tendency to obsess about the whole business. "There is a term …
Psychotic Depression
Av Conrad M. Swartz, Edward Shorter
Inbunden, 2007
1962 kr
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Psychotic depression is a distinct and acute clinical condition along the spectrum of depressive disorders. It can manifest itself in many ways and often induces very violent and suicidal behavior. This book aims to help clinical practitioners and trainees describe their observations of psychotic …
Written in the Flesh
A History of Desire
Häftad, 2006
402 kr
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Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire – a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function. The desire for sexual pleasure and total …
Women's Bodies
A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
Häftad, 1990
822 kr
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What has been the source of women's oppression by men? Shorter argues that women were victimized by their own bodies. Exploring five centuries of medical records and folklore from Europe and the US, he shows how pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecological disease have kept women in positions of social
Doctors and Their Patients
A Social History
Häftad, 1991
776 kr
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With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science 'Doctors and Their Patients' describes how both have arrived at this sad …
Doctors and Their Patients
A Social History
Inbunden, 2017
2526 kr
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With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly disillusioned with the quality of care. Rich in anecdote as well as science 'Doctors and Their Patients' describes how both have arrived at this sad …
Women's Bodies
A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
Inbunden, 2017
2601 kr
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This book describes how women's physical experience historically has affected the whole constellation of values that represents womanliness, and the constellation of power relationships that binds men and women together. It explores the role of herbs and of mechanical procedures for abortion.
