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Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America
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Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
ISBN
9780307452412
0307452417
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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