Comfortably numb
Subtitle: how psychiatry medicated a nation
By: Charles Barber
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780375423994
Subjects: Mental illness -- Chemotherapy -- United States -- History; Psychotropic drugs -- Marketing -- United States -- History; Psychotropic drugs industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Biological psychiatry -- United States -- History; Psychiatry -- United States -- History; Deceptive advertising -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-266) and index
Table of contents: title: Who medicated Iowa?; title: The commerce of mood; title: The triumph of biological psychiatry; title: American misery; title: Cogito ergo sum; title: The human factor; title: The sea snail syndrome