Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Robert Whitaker

ISBN 10: 0307452417 / ISBN 13: 9780307452412

Verlag: Crown, 2010

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The award-winning author of Mad in America presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities that considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: ROBERT WHITAKER is the author of Mad in America, The Mapmaker’s Wife, and On the Laps of Gods, all of which won recognition as “notable books” of the year. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

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Titel: Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, ...
Verlag: Crown
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket