| Description |
211 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in social medicine
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Kramer's anxiety / Erik Parens -- Prozac, enhancement, and self-creation / David Degrazia -- 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 -- Paradox of Prozac as an enhancement technology / Susan Squier -- Sound of one hand clapping : listening to Prozac in Japan / Laurence J. Kirmayer -- Prozac for the sick soul / Tod Chambers. |
| Subject |
Fluoxetine -- Social aspects.
|
|
Personality change.
|
| Added Author |
Elliott, Carl, 1961-
|
|
Chambers, Tod.
|
| ISBN |
0807855510 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
|
0807828807 (cloth : alk. paper) |
|
