{"product_id":"mind-fixers-9780393358063","title":"Mind Fixers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMind Fixers\u003c\/em\u003e tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rosenhan’s study exemplifies much of what went wrong in twentieth-century psychiatry, as biologists, psychoanalysts and sociologists struggled for supremacy. Science historian Anne Harrington takes us through the painful history of that struggle in the enthralling \u003cem\u003eMind Fixers\u003c\/em\u003e, which focuses particularly on the United States.\" -- Nature\u003cbr\u003e\"…often shocking but admirably fair and level-headed history…\" -- Simon Ings - New Scientist\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb… nuanced… In \u003cem\u003eMind Fixers\u003c\/em\u003e, Anne Harrington has written an excellent, engaging guide to what biological psychiatry has accomplished—and not accomplished—so far.\" -- Richard J. McNally - The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"The story Harrington tells is one of push-and-pull, back-and-forth… Intricate and winding, though her prose remains clear and crisp.\" -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\"A laudable venture, in which Harrington’s intellectual precision and exacting research cannot be faulted.\" -- Helen Thompson - The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"By charting our fluctuating beliefs about our own minds, Harrington effectively tells a story about the twentieth century itself.\" -- The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\"A tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster... Of value to historians of medicine.\" -- The Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterful… Harrington’s grasp of this story and the clarity with which, with limited moralism, she delivers a tale about the ‘big picture’ of psychiatry and neurology is emblematic of the historian’s craft.\" -- Stephen T. Casper - Science","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864548356439,"sku":"9780393358063","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393358063.jpg?v=1722272421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mind-fixers-9780393358063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}