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Author Whitaker, Robert, author

Title Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker
Edition First edition
Published New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]
New York : Broadway Paperbacks, 2010
©2010
©2010

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Description xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-393) and index
Subject Drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.
Mental illness -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.
Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- Prescribing
Psychotropic drugs -- United States.
Psychiatry -- ethics.
Psychiatry -- history.
Mental Disorders -- drug therapy.
Mental Disorders -- epidemiology.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 2009049467
ISBN 0307452417
0307452425 (1st pbk. edition)
9780307452412
9780307452429 (1st pbk. edition)
Other Titles Magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America
Mental illness in America