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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.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2010]
©2010

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 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  618.89 WHI    Storage
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.89 WHI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  616.89 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  616.89 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  616.89 WHI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  616.89 WHITAKER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  616.89 WHITAKER    DUE 03-13-19 Billed
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Edition First edition.
Description xi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-393) 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 -- United States.
Psychotropic drugs -- United States.
Drugs -- Prescribing -- United States.
Psychiatry -- United States.
Psychiatry -- ethics -- United States.
Psychiatry -- history -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- epidemiology -- United States.
ISBN 9780307452412
0307452417
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