The Romans knew that Nero was insane. Shakespeare's Macbeth asked his doctor to treat 'a mind diseased'. The physicians of the Enlightenment era pondered whether the inmates in the asylums were mad or simply bad. As a discipline, psychiatry has always walked a fine if not easily defined line between social and biological science. "History of ...
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was unquestionably the founder of modern psychiatry. He was the first to identify schizophrenia and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat these and other mental illnesses. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer's disease (which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer). In this, the ...
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is justly called "the father of modern psychiatry". He was the first to identify schizophrenia and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat mental illness. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer's disease (which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer). Kraepelin ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: John Gach Books
Date Published: 1989
Description: Very Good. John Gach Books, 1989. Soft Cover. Catalog 123, Fall 1989. Cover has moderate shelfwear with three pieces of tape on back and front. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Very nice copy. read more
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
