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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...
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Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric
drugs
, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
by
Whitaker, Robert.
Subjects
Mental illness
--
United
States
.
Psychotropic
drugs
--
Prescribing
--
United
States
.
Psychiatry
--
United
States
.
Publisher Info:
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
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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
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Suffer the children
--
The rise of an ideology
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The story that was . . . and wasn't told
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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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