The sedated society : the causes and harms of our psychiatric drug epidemic / James Davies, editor.
Davies, James (James Peter), editor, writer of introduction.; Gøtzsche, Peter C., contributor.; Timimi, Sami, contributor.; Whitaker, Robert, contributor.; Mills, China, contributor.; Ecks, Stefan, contributor.
2017
BF39.9
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Title
The sedated society : the causes and harms of our psychiatric drug epidemic / James Davies, editor.
ISBN
9783319449111 (electronic book)
3319449117 (electronic book)
9783319449104
3319449109
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44911-1
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-44911-1 doi
Call Number
BF39.9
Dewey Decimal Classification
615.788
Summary
This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. Placing this figure alongside the emerging clinical and scientific data revealing their poor outcomes and the harms these medications often cause, their commercial success cannot be explained by their therapeutic efficacy. Chapters from an interdisciplinary team of global experts in critical psychopharmacology rigorously examine how pharmaceutical sponsorship and marketing, diagnostic inflation, the manipulation and burying of negative clinical trials, lax medication regulation, and neoliberal public health policies have all been implicated in ever-rising psycho-pharmaceutical consumption. This volume will ignite a long-overdue public debate. It will be of interest to professionals in the field of mental health and researchers ranging from sociology of health, to medical anthropology and the political economy of health.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 7, 2017).
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Davies, James (James Peter), editor, writer of introduction.
Gøtzsche, Peter C., contributor.
Timimi, Sami, contributor.
Whitaker, Robert, contributor.
Mills, China, contributor.
Ecks, Stefan, contributor.
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Sedated society.
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Introduction / James Davies
Psychopharmacology is not evidence-based medicine / Peter C. Gøtzsche
Starting young : children cultured into becoming psycho-pharmaceutical consumers
the example of childhood depression / Sami Timimi
Opium and the people : the prescription psychopharmaceutical epidemic in historical context / Joanna Moncrieff
Desperate for a fix : my story of pharmaceutical misadventure / Luke Montagu
Neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drugs : an epidemic of tardive dyskinesia and related brain injuries afflicting tens of millions / Peter R. Breggin
Psychiatry under the influence / Robert Whitaker
Political pills : psychopharmaceuticals and neoliberalism as mutually supporting / James Davies
Psychopharmaceuticals as 'essential medicines' : local negotiations of global access to psychotherapeutic medicines in india / China Mills
The public and private lives of psychopharmaceuticals in the global south / Stefan Ecks
A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing / Peter Kinderman.

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