A man against insanity : the birth of drug therapy in a rural Michigan asylum

De Kruif, Paul 1890-1971 (Author).

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.

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ISBN: 9781943995554
ISBN: 1943995559
Physical Description: print
xiii, 182 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Traverse City, MI : Mission Point Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

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Originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1957.

Edition statement from preface, page xiii.

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

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

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Ferguson, John Thatcher 1908-1968
Traverse City State Hospital (Mich.) x History.
Physicians Michigan Biography
Psychiatric hospitals Michigan Traverse City History
Mentally ill Care
Mentally ill Biography

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