Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.

  • Whitaker, Robert.
Date:
[2010], ©2010
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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

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WM11.AA1 2010W57a
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ISBN

  • 9780307452412
  • 0307452417