Published August, 2019
By Carol Berkenkotter and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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A study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book shows how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system.

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Published December, 2017
By Sheila R. Morris and Harlan Greene
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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A collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movement

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Published April, 2017
By Andrew Farah
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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An innovative biography and the first forensic psychiatric examination of author Ernest Hemingway. Andrew Farah, a forensic psychiatrist, has concluded that the writer's diagnoses were incorrect. Contrary to the commonly accepted diagnoses of bipolar disorder and alcoholism, Farah provides a comprehensive explanation of the medical conditions that led to Hemingway's suicide.

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Published January, 2015
By David Healy, Ronald William Maris and Professor and Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology David Healy
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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An examination of the efficacy and safety of psychiatric medications in light of how little is understood about how they work

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Published January, 2015
By David Healy, Ronald William Maris and Professor and Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology David Healy
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Published August, 2014
By Charles S. Bryan
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Dr. James Woods Babcock, superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane from 1891 to 1914, led the American response to pellagra, producing the first English-language treatise on the disease and organizing the meetings of the National Association for the Study of Pellagra.

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Published April, 2013
By Amy Koerber
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Published May, 2010
By Kay K Moss
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike.

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Published January, 2010
By John Hume Simons
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Published December, 2008
By Carol Berkenkotter
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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