History of the introduction of lithium into medicine and psychiatry
Subtitle: birth of modern psychopharmacology 1949
By: Johan Schioldann ; preface by German E. Berrios
Publisher: Brascoe Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Upper Sturt, S. Aust.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780980547702
Subjects: Lithium; Therapeutic use; Drugs; Research; Psychiatry; Metals
Description: " This book examines Melbourne psychiatrist John Cade's 'leap of faith' in implementing lithium therapy, and concludes that Cade may have been drawing on the research of Danish psychiatrists who wrote about lithium and its effects as early as the 1800s."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.