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- Title
The 'Mad Major' and his Idiosyncratic War: Linking Military Medicine and Lithium Therapy for Mania.
- Authors
Westmore, Ann; de Moore, Greg
- Abstract
Lithium therapy for manic excitement--as devised in the late 1940s by Australian psychiatrist, John Cade--has struggled to find a home in the modern history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. This paper argues for a repositioning of lithium therapy to more closely align it with World War II, in that it provided Cade with a 'master class' in the practices and processes of experimental science on which he drew in his postwar research. By examining wartime factors involved in his development as a scientific psychiatrist, we explore the nature of the scientific enterprise and the intellectual shaping of a key participant in it.
- Subjects
MILITARY medicine; THERAPEUTIC use of lithium; MANIA; CADE, John; HISTORY of psychiatry; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
1442-1771
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5401/healthhist.15.1.0011