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

Date:
[2004], ©2004
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Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

211 pages ; 25 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    Medical Collection
    QV126 2004P96
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ISBN

  • 0807828807
  • 0807855510