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Author Shorter, Edward.

Title Before Prozac : the troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry / Edward Shorter
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description xvi, 304 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Before psychopharmacology -- The first drug set -- Power play -- Killer drugs! -- Death sentences -- The plague of affective disorders -- Losing ground -- What now?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Affective disorders -- Chemotherapy -- United States -- History.
Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- History.
Psychopharmacology -- United States -- History.
Serotonin uptake inhibitors -- Therapeutic use -- History.
Psychotropic drugs industry -- United States -- History.
Pharmaceutical policy -- United States -- History.
Psychopharmacology -- history.
Drug Approval -- history.
Government Agencies -- history.
History, 20th Century.
Mood Disorders -- drug therapy.
Psychotropic Drugs -- history.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 2008008082
ISBN 9780195368741 (alk. paper)
0195368746 (alk. paper)