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Author Tone, Andrea, 1964-

Title The age of anxiety : a history of America's turbulent affair with tranquilizers / Andrea Tone.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  615.7882 TONE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  615.7882 TO    Check Shelf
Description xx, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-288) and index.
Contents Anxiety before the tranquilizer revolution -- The making of Miltown -- The fashionable pill -- Psychiatry in the medicine cabinet -- Arsenals of the anxious -- Corporate choreography and molecular play -- Suffering amid the silence -- Mother's little helpers -- Tranquilizers on trial.
Subject Tranquilizing drugs -- United States -- History.
Antipsychotic drugs -- United States -- History.
Antipsychotic Agents -- history -- United States.
Anxiety Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- history -- United States.
ISBN 9780465086580 alkaline paper
0465086586 alkaline paper
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