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Author Whitaker, Robert.

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

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  616.89 W58a 2010    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 404 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-393) 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing.
Mental illness -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.
Psychiatry -- ethics -- United States.
Psychiatry -- history -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- epidemiology -- United States.
ISBN 9780307452412
0307452417
Standard No. 40017831504

 
    
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