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"Reads as much like a novel as it does a work of medical scholarship."--Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book Review Madhouse revealsa long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental illnesses were the product of chronic infections that poisoned the brain. Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, launched a ruthless campaign to "eliminate the perils of pus infection." Teeth were pulled, tonsils excised, and stomachs, spleens, colons, and uteruses were all sacrificed in the assault on "focal sepsis." Many patients did not survive Cotton's surgeries; thousands more were left mangled and maimed. Cotton's work was controversial, yet none of his colleagues questioned his experimental practices. Subsequent historians and psychiatrists too have ignored the events that cast doubt on their favorite narratives of scientific and humanitarian progress. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Andrew Scull exposes the full, frightening story of madness among the mad-doctors. Drawing on a wealth of documents and interviews, he reconstructs in vivid detail a nightmarish, cautionary chapter in modern psychiatry when professionals failed to police themselves.… (mais)
An absolutely fascinating subject. The author is clearly well-versed and a good researcher and writer. But he does not, alas, know how to tell a story. So this book quickly becomes bogged down; it's dry and suffocating in history and implications and theories rather than focusing on lives and human beings. It should capture our attention and move us to tears, because the subject is so horrifying, but instead most readers will find themselves skimming pages. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The rain that arrived before daybreak on Wednesday, August 5, 1925, finally brought a measure of relief from the sweltering heat and humidity of an all-too-typical New Jersey summer. (Prologue)
Who can envy the fate of the mad and the mopish, the distracted and the deranged, the delusional and the troubled in mind? (Chapter 1, "No Bughouse Doctor")
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Meanwhile, every year, thanks to the grieving widow who had provided the necessary endowment, the contribution to the welfare of the hospital's patients of the great man who had once presided over the establishment was symbolically recognized—with the bestowal on an outstanding member of the staff of "the Cotton Award of Kindness."
"Reads as much like a novel as it does a work of medical scholarship."--Patrick McGrath, New York Times Book Review Madhouse revealsa long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental illnesses were the product of chronic infections that poisoned the brain. Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, launched a ruthless campaign to "eliminate the perils of pus infection." Teeth were pulled, tonsils excised, and stomachs, spleens, colons, and uteruses were all sacrificed in the assault on "focal sepsis." Many patients did not survive Cotton's surgeries; thousands more were left mangled and maimed. Cotton's work was controversial, yet none of his colleagues questioned his experimental practices. Subsequent historians and psychiatrists too have ignored the events that cast doubt on their favorite narratives of scientific and humanitarian progress. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Andrew Scull exposes the full, frightening story of madness among the mad-doctors. Drawing on a wealth of documents and interviews, he reconstructs in vivid detail a nightmarish, cautionary chapter in modern psychiatry when professionals failed to police themselves.
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