Anatomy of an epidemic
Subtitle: magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness in America
By: Robert Whitaker.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780307452412
Subjects: Mental illness -- United States; Psychotropic 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
Description: Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A modern plague; title: Anecdotal thoughts; title: The roots of an epidemic; title: Psychiatry's magic bullets; title: The hunt for chemical imbalances; title: A paradox revealed; title: The benzo trap; title: An episodic illness turns chronic; title: The bipolar boom; title: An epidemic explained; title: The epidemic spreads to children; title: Suffer the children; title: The rise of an ideology; title: The story that was . . . and wasn't told; title: Tallying up the profits; title: Blueprints for reform.