Prozac as a way of life / edited by Carl Elliott and Tod Chambers.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004], ©2004.

211 pages ; 25 cm.

Kramer's anxiety / Erik Parens -- Prozac, enhancement, and self-creation / David Degrazia -- The valorization of sadness: alienation and the melancholic temperament / Peter D. Kramer -- Passion, activity, and the care of the self: Foucault and Heidegger in the precincts of Prozac / James C. Edwards -- Good science or good business? / David Healy -- Kafka's boys: a story of sex and serotonin / Lauren Slater -- Care of the dying in America / Laurie Zoloth -- Pursued by happiness and beaten senseless: Prozac and the American dream / Carl Elliott -- The paradox of Prozac as an enhancement technology / Susan Squier -- The sound of one hand clapping: listening to Prozac in Japan / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Prozac for the sick soul / Tod Chambers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.