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Title Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America / Robert Whitaker.
Author Whitaker, Robert, author.
Published New York : Broadway Books, 2015.


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Description xii, 420 pages : graphs ; 21 cm.
ISBN 9780307452429paperback
0307452425 paperback
Note Originally published: New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one: The epidemic. A modern plague -- Anecdotal thoughts -- Part two: The science of psychiatric drugs. The roots of an epidemic -- Psychiatry's magic bullets -- The hunt for chemical imbalances -- Part three: Outcomes. 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 -- Part four: The explication of a dillusion. The rise of an ideology -- The story that was ... and wasn't told -- Tallying up the profits -- Part five: Solutions. Blue0prints for reform.
Library Class Medicine RJ8
Subject Mental illness -- United States.
Psychotropic drugs -- United States.
Drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.

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