The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present

Author: Kushner, Howard I.

Source: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 59, Number 3, July 2004 , pp. 477-479(3)

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The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present. The Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present E. Fuller Torrey Judy Miller Piscataway, New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2002 xiii, 416 illus. $60 cloth $24 paper Edited by E. Fuller Torrey; Judy Miller; . Rutgers University Press. Piscataway, New Jersey. Pp. xiii, 416. illus. $60 cloth: $24 paper: ,

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrh094

Affiliations: 1: Rollins School of Public Health and The Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Publication date: 2004-07-01

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