Happy pills in America
Subtitle: from Miltown to Prozac
By: by David Herzberg.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801890307
Subjects: Psychotropic drugs -- United States -- History.; Psychotropic drugs -- Social aspects -- United States.; Psychotropic Drugs -- history -- United States.; Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use -- United States.; Consumer Satisfaction -- United States.; Culture -- United States.; Drug Industry -- trends -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Blockbuster drugs in the age of anxiety; value: Listening to Miltown; value: Drug wars and wonder drugs; value: The Valium panic; value: Prozac and the incorporation of the brain.