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Author Whitaker, Robert.

Title Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]
©2010
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1444031~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  616.89 WHI    AVAILABLE
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Description xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Mental illness.
Psychotropic drugs.
Drugs -- Prescribing.
Psychiatry.
ISBN 9780307452412
0307452417
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