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- catalog abstract "Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when physicians attempted to heal the mind by treating the body with methods we might now find extreme and perhaps even brutal. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs this "therapeutic" world of mental patients and their doctors, a world composed of drastic somatic treatments such as hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy. Though these therapies have often been dismissed as a product of an unenlightened psychiatric past, Braslow takes seriously the ways in which doctors and patients combined the social and the scientific to create what they - doctors more so than patients - believed to be effective remedies. His approach illuminates the cultural and medical context of these largely abandoned practices and suggests ways in which the social, now, as then, is an inseparable part of our medical universe.".
- catalog contributor b10423997.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction to the psychiatric body -- Institutional therapy: context, background, structure -- Discipline or therapy: patients, doctors, and somatic remedies in the early twentieth century -- In the name of therapeutics: sexual sterilization as psychic cure -- Neurosyphilis, malaria, and a new therapeutic rationale -- Where the mind ends and the body begins: the practice of electroconvulsive therapy -- Surgery as discipline: lobotomy at Stockton State Hospital -- Discipline gendered: women and the practice of lobotomy.".
- catalog description "Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when physicians attempted to heal the mind by treating the body with methods we might now find extreme and perhaps even brutal. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, Joel Braslow masterfully reconstructs this "therapeutic" world of mental patients and their doctors, a world composed of drastic somatic treatments such as hydrotherapy, sterilization, electroshock, lobotomy, and clitoridectomy. Though these therapies have often been dismissed as a product of an unenlightened psychiatric past, Braslow takes seriously the ways in which doctors and patients combined the social and the scientific to create what they - doctors more so than patients - believed to be effective remedies. His approach illuminates the cultural and medical context of these largely abandoned practices and suggests ways in which the social, now, as then, is an inseparable part of our medical universe.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 240 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520205472 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Medicine and society ; 8".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "616.89/1 21".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders therapy United States.".
- catalog subject "Mental Disorders therapy.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Physical therapy United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Mental illness Treatment United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Mind and body.".
- catalog subject "RC480.5 .B725 1997".
- catalog subject "Therapeutics United States History.".
- catalog subject "Therapeutics history".
- catalog subject "W1 ME6490 v.8 1997".
- catalog subject "WM 11 AA1 B8m 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the psychiatric body -- Institutional therapy: context, background, structure -- Discipline or therapy: patients, doctors, and somatic remedies in the early twentieth century -- In the name of therapeutics: sexual sterilization as psychic cure -- Neurosyphilis, malaria, and a new therapeutic rationale -- Where the mind ends and the body begins: the practice of electroconvulsive therapy -- Surgery as discipline: lobotomy at Stockton State Hospital -- Discipline gendered: women and the practice of lobotomy.".
- catalog title "Mental ills and bodily cures : psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twenthieth century / Joel Braslow.".
- catalog type "text".