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

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]

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General Note:
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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Subject: 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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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