A Question of Madness: Repression by Psychiatry in the Soviet Union Contributor(s): Medvedev, Zhores a. (Author), Medvedev, Roy A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393009211 ISBN-13: 9780393009217 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1979 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Social Science | Penology |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 79001106 |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 228 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Medvedev, Zhores: - Zhores Medvedev is now a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research in London. |