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. United States. LC no. 2008008082 ISBN 9780195368741 (alk. paper) 0195368746 (alk. paper)

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