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  • A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry

    by Edward Shorter ...
    This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international differences in context, and there is an extensive bibliography for further reading. Each entry gives the main ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Before Prozac

    The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

    by Edward Shorter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5

    Historical Mental Disorders Today

    by Edward Shorter ...
    Choice Recommended ReadWhat 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 ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • From Paralysis to Fatigue

    A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

    by Edward Shorter ...
    The first book to put the physical symptoms of stress in their historical and cultural context.This fascinating history of psychosomatic disorders shows how patients throughout the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society. Newly popularized diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" and "total allergy syndrome" are only the most recent examples of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Women's Bodies

    A Social History of Women's Encounter with Health, Ill-Health and Medicine

    by Edward Shorter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Madness of Fear

    A History of Catatonia

    by Edward Shorter, Max Fink ...
    What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Written in the Flesh

    A History of Desire

    by Edward Shorter ...
    Series series Heritage
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology

    by Edward Shorter ...
    The Age of Psychopharmacology began with a brilliant rise in the 1950s, when for the first time science entered the study of drugs that affect the brain and mind. But, esteemed historian Edward Shorter argues that there has been a recent fall, as the field has seen its drug offerings impoverished and its diagnoses distorted by the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders." The new ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Partnership for Excellence

    Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals

    by Edward Shorter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

    The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown

    by Edward Shorter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Heartbeat of Innovation

    A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital

    by Edward Shorter, Hugh E. Scully, Bernard S. Goldman ...
    Great innovations take place within great institutions. Founded in 1819, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Canada’s oldest hospitals and has created a nurturing environment for early Canadian innovations in heart surgery. The Heartbeat of Innovation tells the story of the brilliant surgeons who worked there and the hospital environment that provided an incubator to the many people – skilled ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Before Prozac

    The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry

    by Edward Shorter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $29.69 USD