The Creation of Psychopharmacology
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674006195
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Pharmacology; Psychiatry; 20th century; Mental Disorders; Neuropsychopharmacology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Psychotropic drugs; Psychology; Psychopharmacology; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Psychology & Psychiatry / History; Mental Illness; History
Description: "In this book, David Healy follows his study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and development of antipsychotic medication. Healy argues that the discovery of chlorpromazine (more generally known as Thorazine) is as significant in the history of medicine as the discovery of penicillin, given the worldwide prevalence of insanity within living memory."--BOOK JACKET.