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Whitaker, Robert.
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Mental illness -- United States.
Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.
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Anatomy of an epidem...
Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
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Whitaker, Robert.
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Mental illness -- United States.
Psychotropic drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.
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New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xi, 404 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780307452412
0307452417
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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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.
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