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Book

Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America

Call Number

  • 616.89 W578 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.

Physical Description

xi, 404 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

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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