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As Dowbiggin shows, unless systemic changes take place, the quest for mental health is likely to make populations more miserable before . Other books in the series. Cambridge Essential Histories (1 - 10 of 12 books). Books by Ian Dowbiggin.

As Dowbiggin shows, unless systemic changes take place, the quest for mental health is likely to make populations more miserable before they become happier.

In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed .

In the name of mental health, millions around the world have been tranquilized, institutionalized, psycho-analyzed, sterilized, lobotomized and even euthanized. Yet at the dawn of the new millennium, reported rates of depression and anxiety are unprecedentedly high.

This new volume by Ian Dowbiggin is at once ambitious and concise and even-handed in its recognition that various styles of psychiatry have made worthwhile contributions. The Quest for Mental Health is also even-handed in criticizing all styles of psychiatry for their various contributions to the medicalization of unhappiness. Like the best of recent medicalization studies, Dowbiggin's does not treat it as a simple power grab by psychiatrists.

Dr Dowbiggin has written a near-comprehensive book that discusses the role of physicians but focuses also on. .Dowbiggin will no doubt inspire stimulating debate among students of the history of science and medicine. Rob Boddice, Canadian Journal of History a useful.

Dr Dowbiggin has written a near-comprehensive book that discusses the role of physicians but focuses also on individual patients, famous reformers, cataclysmic social changes and the contributions of psychology. Dr Shane Neilson, Medical Post a very thought-provoking book. A must-read for advanced students, faculty, and practitioners in the mental health fields. Choice Dowbiggin will no doubt inspire stimulating debate among students of the history of science and medicine. Rob Boddice, Canadian Journal of History a useful introduction to the history of mental health for upper-level history students.

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Ian Dowbiggin writes excellent history on both scores. Cambridge University Press. Time and again he stops readers in their tracks. Ian Dowbiggin has been professor of history since 1991 at the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada's smallest province, the setting for the children's classic Anne of Green Gables. While studying for his undergraduate degree at McMaster University in Ontario, Dowbiggin became fascinated by the history of science and medicine.

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