Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and this text examines the role of medicine as a more insidious tyrant than religion, as it claims to be beneficial to both the patient and the commonwealth.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 04/01/1997
ISBN: 9780815604617
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.62w x 0.90d