Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
Whitaker, Robert.
2010
RC443 .W437 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
Author Whitaker, Robert.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307452412
0307452417
Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Language English
Description xi, 404 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number RC443 .W437 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.89
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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