Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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| Management number | 232016671 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | $5.57 | Model Number | 232016671 | ||
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“Superb… a nuanced account of biological psychiatry.” ―Richard J. McNallyIn Mind Fixers, “the preeminent historian of neuroscience” (Science magazine) Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated efforts to understand mental disorder. She shows that psychiatry’s waxing and waning theories have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors. Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0393358062 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0393358063 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 1 x 8.3 inches |
| Item Weight | 10.4 ounces |
| Print length | 384 pages |
| Publication date | June 16, 2020 |
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