Health Care | Chapter 4 Preface

Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit disorder (ADD), post-traumatic stress disorder . . . once these were terms heard only in a medical school lecture hall or on the psychiatric floor of a major hospital. Now they are dinner table conversation, the topics of television features, and first-person stories in the Sunday paper. The human mind—sick and well—became the focus of scientific research, media exploitation, and political attention when Congress declared the final decade of the twentieth century the Decade of the...

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