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Authors > Shorter, Edward

Professor Edward Shorter holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine. Working within U of T’s Joint Centre for Bioethics and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Shorter has research and written extensively about the history of psychosomatic illness. He received the Jason A. Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for his book, A History of Psychiatry .

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	The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology
		Edward Shorter
		Oxford University Press \| Softcover \| 2021 \| 0197574432
		Psychopharmacology \| Toronto-Area Authors
		price: $54.95 (in stock!)

	A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac
		Edward Shorter
		Wiley \| Softcover \| 1998 \| 0471245313
		Psychiatry \| History
		price: $54.00 (in stock!)

	The Heartbeat of Innovation: A History of Cardiac Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital
		Edward Shorter, Hugh E. Scully and Bernard S. Goldman
		University of Toronto Press \| Hardcover \| 2022 \| 1487526814
		History \| Forthcoming
		reg price: $45.00 our price: 42.75 (not yet published - price may be subject to change)

	The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia
		Edward Shorter and Max Fink
		Oxford University Press \| Softcover \| 2018 \| 0190881194
		Psychiatry \| History
		price: $43.95 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	What Psychiatry Left Out of the DSM-5: Historical Mental Disorders Today
		Edward Shorter
		Routledge \| Softcover \| 2015 \| 1138830895
		Psychiatry \| History
		reg price: $86.50 our price: 73.53 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
		Edward Shorter
		Oxford University Press \| Hardcover \| 2013 \| 0199948089
		History \| Psychotherapy
		reg price: $29.95 our price: 26.96 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Endocrine Psychiatry: Solving the Riddle of Melancholia
		Edward Shorter and Max Fink
		Oxford \| POD - firm sale \| Hardcover \| 2010 \| 0199737460
		Psychiatry \| Toronto-Area Authors
		price: $61.95 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	The History of Psychopharmacology and the CINP - As Told in Autobiography: The triumph of Psychopharmacology and the story of CINP
		Thomas A. Ban, David Healy, and Edward Shorter (Eds)
		Animula Publ House \| Softcover \| 2010 \| 9634081819
		Psychopharmacology \| History
		price: $20.50 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Before Prozac : The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
		Edward Shorter, PhD
		Oxford University Press \| Hardcover \| 2008 \| 0195368746
		Psychiatry \| Social & Political Issues
		price: $33.95 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Shock Therapy : The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
		Edward Shorter and David Healy
		University of Toronto Press \| Hardcover \| 2007 \| 0802093477
		Psychiatry \| History
		reg price: $53.00 our price: 47.70 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Written in the Flesh : A History of Desire
		Edward Shorter
		University of Toronto Press \| Softcover \| 2006 \| 080209452X
		History \| Gender Studies
		price: $31.95 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Written in the Flesh : A History of Desire [hardcover edition]
		Edward Shorter
		University of Toronto Press \| Hardcover \| 2005 \| 0802038433
		History \| Gender Studies
		price: $54.00 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
		Edward Shorter (Edt)
		Oxford University Press \| Hardcover \| 2005 \| 0195176685
		Psychiatry \| History
		price: $69.95 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation
		Edward Shorter
		Temple University Press \| Softcover \| 2000 \| 1566397839

		price: $36.75 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	From Paralysis to Fatigue : A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
		Edward Shorter
		The Free Press \| Softcover \| 1993 \| 0029286670
		Mind & Body \| History
		price: $27.99 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Women's Bodies : A Social History of Women''s Encounter With Health, Ill-Health, and Medicine
		Edward Shorter
		Routledge / Transaction Publishers \| Softcover \| 1991 \| 0887388485
		Women's Issues \| Social & Political Issues
		reg price: $65.70 our price: 59.13 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

	Doctors and Their Patients : A Social History
		Edward Shorter
		Routledge / Transaction Publishers \| Softcover \| 1990 \| 088738871X
		Social & Political Issues \| Toronto-Area Authors
		reg price: $69.95 our price: 62.96 (not in stock - price may be subject to change)

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