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A man against insanity : the birth of drug therapy in a rural Michigan asylum / Paul De Kruif.

By: Publisher: Traverse City, MI : Mission Point Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: New editionDescription: xiii, 182 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1943995559
  • 9781943995554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R154 .F47 D45 2018
Summary: The story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a man who battled drug addiction and had repeated psychotic breakdowns, but recovered and became a physician. He was determined to help the so-called incurably insane and mostly forgotten mental patients at the Traverse City State Hospital through experimental drug therapy, and in the process changed the way the mentally ill were treated.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks R154 .F47 D45 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001510600

"1 doctor, 107 nurses, 1000 patients"--Front cover.

"Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology"--Back cover.

Edition statement from preface, page xiii.

Originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1957.

The story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a man who battled drug addiction and had repeated psychotic breakdowns, but recovered and became a physician. He was determined to help the so-called incurably insane and mostly forgotten mental patients at the Traverse City State Hospital through experimental drug therapy, and in the process changed the way the mentally ill were treated.

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