Title:
Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
ISBN:
9780307452412
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
OCLC Number:
ocn429022293
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
