The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone.

  • Tone, Andrea, 1964-
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[2009], ©2009
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-288) and index.

Contents

Anxiety before the tranquilizer revolution -- The making of Miltown -- The fashionable pill -- Psychiatry in the medicine cabinet -- Arsenals of the anxious -- Corporate choreography and molecular play -- Suffering amid the silence -- Mother's little helpers -- Tranquilizers on trial.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    IJI.6
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780465086580
  • 0465086586