Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture
Subtitle: Essays on Medicine, Mental Health And the Media
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780786425136
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; Popular culture; Psychiatry; Social Science; Popular Culture - General; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Anthropology - General; General; Psychotropic drugs
Description: "The authors in this compilation of essays contend that society has been transformed into an asylum without walls--a 'psychotropia.' With each new definition of a mental ailment a new cure is offered, increasing the number of inmates in this asylum and blurring the lines between mental health and mental illness"--Provided by publisher.