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020 _a1943995559
020 _a9781943995554
035 _a(OCoLC)1089002428
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050 4 _aR154 .F47
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100 1 _aDe Kruif, Paul,
_d1890-1971,
245 1 2 _aA man against insanity :
_bthe birth of drug therapy in a rural Michigan asylum /
_cPaul De Kruif.
250 _aNew edition.
264 1 _aTraverse City, MI :
_bMission Point Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018.
300 _axiii, 182 pages :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
500 _a"1 doctor, 107 nurses, 1000 patients"--Front cover.
500 _a"Medical / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology"--Back cover.
500 _aEdition statement from preface, page xiii.
500 _aOriginally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1957.
520 _aThe 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.
600 1 0 _aFerguson, John Thatcher,
_d1908-1968.
610 2 0 _aTraverse City State Hospital (Mich.) x History.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_vBiography.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_xCare.
650 0 _aPhysicians
_zMichigan
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPsychiatric hospitals
_zMichigan
_zTraverse City
_xHistory.
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft.
999 _c523520
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