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