Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
- Whitaker, Robert.
- Date:
- [2010], ©2010
- Books
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Description
Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
Publication/Creation
New York : Crown Publishers, [2010], ©2010.
Physical description
xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- A paradox revealed -- The benzo trap -- An episodic illness turns chronic -- The bipolar boom -- An epidemic explained -- The epidemic spreads to children -- Suffer the children -- The rise of an ideology -- The story that was ... and wasn't told -- Tallying up the profits -- Blueprints for reform.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWM11.AA1 2010W57aOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780307452412
- 0307452417