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Montgomery, Sarah Fawn, author.
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Montgomery, Sarah Fawn.
Montgomery, Sarah Fawn -- Mental health.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
Women -- Mental health -- United States.
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Quite mad : an Ameri...
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Quite mad : an American pharma memoir / Sarah Fawn Montgomery.
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Montgomery, Sarah Fawn, author.
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Subjects
Montgomery, Sarah Fawn.
Montgomery, Sarah Fawn -- Mental health.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
Women -- Mental health -- United States.
ISBN:
9780814254868 (paperback ; alkaline paper) :
0814254861 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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Machete.
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xviii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The influence of intervention -- The sick role -- Nature or nurture -- An American diagnosis -- Patient history -- My voice for their drugs -- A female malady -- Learned behavior -- The world we've made for women -- Editing -- Molecular myths -- Bitter pills -- Rebuffed -- Delicates -- Unbearable weight -- Rapture in May -- Occam's razor -- Compulsion -- Moral treatment -- Taking up space -- Turning around -- Is satisfied enough?
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"Blends memoir with literary journalism to examine America's history of mental illness treatments to challenge contemporary narratives about mental health, questioning what it means to be a woman with highly stigmatized disorders and asking why mental illness continues to escalate in the United States despite so many 'cures'"--
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Hawaii State Library
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362.19689 Montgomery Mo
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