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Edward Shorter

Endocrine Psychiatry

Solving the Riddle of Melancholia

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The riddle of melancholia has stumped generations of doctors. It is a serious depressive illness that often leads to suicide and premature death. The disease's link to biology has been intensively studied. Unlike almost any other psychiatric disorder, melancholia sufferers have abnormal endocrine functions. Tests capable of separating melancholia from other mood disorders were useful discoveries, but these tests fell into disuse as psychiatrists lost interest in biology and medicine. In the nineteenth century, theories about the role of endocrine organs encouraged endocrine treatments that loomed prominently in practice. This interest f… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Fink, Max
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-974554-8
  • EAN: 9780199745548
  • Produktnummer: 13945358
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'536 KB

Über den Autor


Edward Shorter, PhDProfessor of the History of MedicineHannah Chair in the History of MedicineProfessor of PsychiatryFaculty of MedicineUniversity of TorontoMax Fink, MDProfessor of Psychiatry and Neurology EmeritusSchool of MedicineState University of New York at Stony BrookNew York, NY

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