wyszukanych pozycji: 25
Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
ISBN: 9780195368741 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 to treat depression.
Naturally, the book looks at such culprits as the pharmaceutical industry, which is not inclined to market drugs once the patent expires, leading to the endless introduction of new--but not necessarily better--drugs. But the heart of the book focuses on an unexpected villain:... 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....
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200,35 zł |
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
ISBN: 9780471245315 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. "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 and the conditions under which they and their patients lived."--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday magazine, U.K.
"An opinionated, anecdote-rich history. . . . While psychiatrists may quibble, and Freudians and other psychoanalysts will surely squawk, those without a vested interest will be... "PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strik...
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183,29 zł |
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
ISBN: 9780197574430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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212,64 zł |
Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
ISBN: 9781138540682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |
Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
ISBN: 9780199737468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 functions. Tests capable of separating melancholia from other mood disorders were useful discoveries, but these tests fell into disuse as psychiatrists lost interest in biology and medicine. In the nineteenth century, theories about the role of endocrine organs encouraged endocrine treatments that...
The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The ...
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345,37 zł |
Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
ISBN: 9780802038432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 body sex - that is, the expansion of sexuality from a limited focus on the face and genitals to include the entire body - is certainly not a new phenomenon: the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, amongst others, were quite familiar with eroticism that went beyond the strictly... 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 stor... |
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233,42 zł |
Stormy's World: Inside Porn
ISBN: 9780984228553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,54 zł |
What Psychiatry Left Out of the Dsm-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today
ISBN: 9781138830899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as a field is over two centuries old and over that time has gathered great wisdom about mental illnesses. Today, much of that knowledge has been ignored and we have diagnoses such as "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" that do not correspond to the diseases found in nature; we have also left out disease labels that...
What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...
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254,11 zł |
Women's Bodies: A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine
ISBN: 9780887388484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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
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 medi...
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238,55 zł |
From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
ISBN: 9780029286678 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when people experience confusion about the abundant possibilities available to them, when all is permitted, the dominant complaint is fatigue. Edward Shorter's history shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of larger society. He argues that newly popularized diseases such as chronic fatigue syndrome are only the most recent examples of patients' ailments that express the deepest truths about...
In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when peopl...
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113,09 zł |
Doctors and Their Patients: A Social History
ISBN: 9781138522404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |
Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
ISBN: 9781442645950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 992 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is North America's largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians from Vincent Lam to Sheela Basrur began their careers. But despite all its major accomplishments, the faculty's impressive history has never before been comprehensively documented. In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details... The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is North America's largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated t... |
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285,29 zł |
Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
ISBN: 9781487543396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 988 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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248,98 zł |
Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia
ISBN: 9780190881191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first-ever history of catatonia, a singular psychiatric illness featuring often bizarre disorders of mind and movement together with fearfulness and anxiety. Unlike most other psychiatric illnesses, it is eminently treatable, the symptoms vanishing as rapidly as they have come. For many years it was considered incorrectly as a "subtype" of schizophrenia.
This is the first-ever history of catatonia, a singular psychiatric illness featuring often bizarre disorders of mind and movement together with fearf...
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229,83 zł |
Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780813554259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 Nest, where the inmate of a psychiatric clinic (played by Jack Nicholson) is subjected to electro-shock to curb his rebellious behavior. Beyond its vilification in popular culture, the stereotype of convulsive therapy as a dangerous and inhumane practice is fuelled by professional posturing...
Shock therapy is making a comeback today in the treatment of serious mental illness. Despite its reemergence as a safe and effective psychiatric tool,...
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186,73 zł |
Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
ISBN: 9780802094520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 body sex - that is, the expansion of sexuality from a limited focus on the face and genitals to include the entire body - is certainly not a new phenomenon: the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, amongst others, were quite familiar with eroticism that went beyond the strictly... 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 stor... |
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155,56 zł |
The Kennedy Family
ISBN: 9781566397834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal. The mentally retarded who lived at home were largely isolated and a source of family shame. Although some social stigma still attaches to the people with developmental disabilities (a range of conditions including what until recently was called mental retardation), they now actively participate in our society and are entitled by law to educational, social, and medical services. The immense improvement in their daily lives and life chances came about in...
According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal. The ment...
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145,18 zł |
What Psychiatry Left Out of the Dsm-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today
ISBN: 9781138830905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Choice Recommended Read What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagnoses that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) failed to include, along with diagnoses that should not have been included, but were. Psychiatry as a field is over two centuries old and over that time has gathered great wisdom about mental illnesses. Today, much of that knowledge has been ignored and we have diagnoses such as "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" that do not correspond to the diseases found in... Choice Recommended Read What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today covers the diagno... |
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726,18 zł |
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
ISBN: 9780199948086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 for what they have," writes Edward Shorter, "and it's a good old-fashioned term that has gone out of use. They have nerves." In How Everyone Became Depressed, Edward Shorter, a distinguished professor of psychiatry and the history of medicine argues for a return to the old fashioned...
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 hav...
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195,44 zł |
Doctors and Their Patients: A Social History
ISBN: 9780887388712 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 shape.
With every passing year, the mutual mistrust between doctor and patient widens, as doctors retreat into resentment and patients become increasingly di...
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228,18 zł |